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Infant Jesus meets John the Baptist
Lost Art-ID
570675
Artist
Robbia, Andrea della (Werkstatt des Andrea della Robbia)
Birth
1435.10.28
Death
1525
Place of activity
Florenz; La Verna
Title
Infant Jesus meets John the Baptist
Place of manufacture
Italien
Datierung
1401/1500
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
terracotta
Height
26.00 cm
Width
30.00 cm
Description
Both running to each other, lying their arms on each others shoulder and extend their hands. Naturalistically treaten pedastal, half-height stone wall behind the figures. Terracotta, glazed: Figures in white, halo yellow, floor and all green. Flat backside, not glazed. Former times collection R. of Passavant-Gontard, Frankfurt a. M. 1929, published by Staedelschen Kunstinstituts, Nr. 85, Tafel 21. Source: Hugo Helbing Kunsthandlung and Kunstversteigerungshaus: Kunstbesitz eines Berliner Sammlers. Katalog Nr. 49.
Provenance
Collection Jakob Goldschmidt, Berlin, Auction at 23rd June 1936 by auctionhouse Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt am Main. CatalogueNo: 64 (Auktionshaus Hugo Helbing, 1936)
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