Italian school (XVII) - Hl

Title Baroque Oil Painting "St. Joseph with the Child Jesus" (circa 1700) – With historical Bingen dedication from 1878 Object data • Technique: Oil on canvas • Era: Baroque (circa 1700) – today about 325 years old. • School: Italian/Mid-European School • Motif: St. Joseph with the Child Jesus in swaddling clothes and angels in the background (chiaroscuro lighting). • Dimensions of the painting: 54.5 × 40.0 cm • Dimensions with frame: 55.5 × 43.5 cm Condition • Painting: Age-appropriate original condition. Authentic patina with fine craquelure and small losses in the paint layer. • Canvas/ stretcher: In the 19th century (around 1878) professionally back-stretched at the edges (edges reinforced) and stretched on the original wooden key-framed stretcher. The stretcher is stable. Provenance & inscription (back) Sharp, original ink dedication in Kurrent handwriting dated 19 March 1878 (Feast of St. Joseph). The already historic Baroque image (at the time of the gift in 1878 about 180 years old) was given by Bingen high school students to their religion teacher. • Donor: The First Communicants Johann Baptist Nohn and Philipp Heinrich Nohn (secondary school students in Bingen). • Recipient: Chaplain Joseph Engelhardt (well-known Bingen church personality, president of the St. Rochus Brotherhood, later Mainz Cathedral Canon, d. 1928). Wording of the inscription: "Aus Dankbarkeit gewidmet am Feste des heil. Joseph 1878 ihrem verehrten und geliebten Religionslehrer Herrn Caplan Joseph Engelhardt die Erstcommunicanten Johann Baptist Nohn, Philipp Heinrich Nohn. Realschüler in Bingen."

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