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Object Type
print
Museum number
1855,0609.1502
Title
Object:
Heilige Familie
Series:
Die Kaiserliche königliche Bildergalerie im Belvedere zu Wien
Series:
Belvedere gallery
Description
The Virgin seated at centre and placing her arm around the Christ Child at right, St John the Baptist at left, two putti with grapes in top right; after Jacob de Backer. c.1821-1828 Engraving and etching
Producer name
After:
Jacob de Backer
Print made by:
Leopold Beyer
Intermediary draughtsman:
Sigmund Ferdinand von Perger
Published by:
Carl Haas
After:
Otto van Veen
(formerly attributed)
School/style
Flemish
Austrian
Production date
1821-1828
(c.)
Materials
paper
Technique
engraving
etching
Dimensions
Height:
177 millimetres
(sheet)
Width:
245 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For comment on the series see 1855,0609.1496. After the 1590-1600 painting by Jacob de Backer in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, inv.no.1689.
Location
Not on display
Subjects
virgin and child with baptist
Associated names
Representation of:
Virgin Mary
Representation of:
Jesus Christ
Representation of:
St John the Baptist (Prodromos)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
A E Evans & Sons
Acquisition date
1855
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1855,0609.1502