Painting
1600-1700 (made)
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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.
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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. |
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Bibliographic reference | Kauffmann, C. M. Victoria and Albert Museum: Catalogue of Foreign Paintings, I: Before 1800. London: HMSO, 1973. 317 p., ill. ISBN 0901486728. |
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Accession number | 524:2-1872 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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