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Church dignitary with kneeling child holding a spoon in his hand

Lost Art-ID
619365
Artist / Creator
Romano, Giulio
Birth
1499, Rom
Death
1546.11.01, Mantua
Place of activity
Mantua; Marmirolo; Rom
Title
Church dignitary with kneeling child holding a spoon in his hand
Dating
1540 (around, ?)
Object type
Drawing
Group of reported objects
Graphic
Material / Technique
Paper ; Sepia ; Ink / drawn
Measures
Maße Ausschnitt Passepartout (höchster Punkt des Ausschnitts), Passepartout: 43 cm x 57 cm
Height
31.00 cm
Width
44.70 cm
Inventory number
GS Mappe 54,21; Inventarnummer S 1965/1190,21
Description
Man in clerical dress (mitre, cloak, book under his right arm) bends towards a child, stretches out his left arm, the child in turn stretches out with his left arm towards the old man with beard, child has a shovel/spoon in his right hand, wears only a simple cloth as a robe, kneels with one leg on the ground, the other raised up
Provenance
Auction at Rudolph Lepke's auction house, Berlin, on 14 March 1905, sale to "Greve"; probably during the war, at the latest since 9 July 1945 until today Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold, initially handed over in trust by the British Military Government Detmold, since 20 July 1945 officially handed over for safekeeping.
Published since
Contact

Lippische Landesbibliothek / Theologische Bibliothek und Mediothek
Hornsche Str. 41
32756 Detmold
Germany

Phone
05231 92660-36
Homepage
http://www.llb-detmold.de
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