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Painting

1600-1700 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Oil paint on agate. Gilt metal frame of scroll outline, chased and applied figures under canopies, groups representing Venus at the forge of Vulcan and the Judgement of Paris. seraphs and enamelled flowers with jewelled bosses. In the centre is a painting of the Virgin and Child with St Joseph.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
painting
Brief description
Virgin and Child with St Joseph. Artist Unknown, South German School
Physical description
Oil paint on agate. Gilt metal frame of scroll outline, chased and applied figures under canopies, groups representing Venus at the forge of Vulcan and the Judgement of Paris. seraphs and enamelled flowers with jewelled bosses. In the centre is a painting of the Virgin and Child with St Joseph.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15cm
  • Width: 10.7cm
  • Depth: 1cm
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Kauffmann, C. M. Victoria and Albert Museum: Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I: Before 1800. London: HMSO, 1973. 317 p., ill. ISBN 0901486728.
Collection
Accession number
524:2-1872

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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