The Virgin Mary Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child

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The Virgin Mary Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child

1837-1838

Joseph Caspar (Swiss (active Germany), 1799–1880) After a drawing of c. 1836-1837 by Andreas Johann Jacob Heinrich Müller (German, 1811–1890) Copied after a painting of 1836 by Ernst Deger (German, 1809–1885) Published by the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen zu Düsseldorf (founded 1829) Printed by C. Schulgen-Bettendorff, Kupferdruckerei der Königlichen Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf (active 19th century)

Ernst Deger made his reputation in the 1830s with small paintings of the Madonna and Child that were made widely available to collectors in the form of prints by leading engravers, such as Joseph Caspar. This is one such print by Caspar based on one of Deger’s paintings. That painting had, in turn, likely been inspired by another of Caspar’s prints--a reproduction of a painting of Saint Catherine dated 1500 that in Deger’s and Caspar’s time was thought to be by Raphael.

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Object Details

Titles:

The Virgin Mary Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child
S. Maria, Membership Print of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen in Düsseldorf for the Year 1838/39, Membership print of the Art Union for the Rhinelands and Westphalia for the year 1838/39

Date:

1837-1838

Artists:

Medium:

Etching and engraving

Dimensions:

Plate: 15 9/16 x 14 1/16inches (39.6 x 35.7cm) Sheet: 22 1/4 x 16 5/16inches (56.5 x 41.5cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillips bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman, gifts (by exchange) of Lisa Norris Elkins, Bryant W. Langston, Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White, with additional funds contributed by John Howard McFadden, Jr., Thomas Skelton Harrison, and the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, 1985

Accession Number:

1985-52-18541

Geography:

Made in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

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