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1967.20.80.b

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Joseph's Dream

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Artist

Artist Unidentified

Title

Joseph's Dream

Creation Date

n.d.

Century

17th century (?)

Dimensions

1 7/8 in. x 2 5/8 in. (4.8 cm. x 6.6 cm.)

Object Type

plaquette

Medium and Support

bronze

Credit Line

Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari

Copyright

Public Domain

Accession Number

1967.20.80.b

Object Description

423 JOSEPH'S DREAM
A clothed angel with halo flies down from the left to Joseph, who sleeps at his workbench, his tools to the left, in a room with a cobbled floor. On the right, three steps lead up to another room in which Mary kneels at a prie-dieu.

Bronze, 48 x 66 mm.

We are in doubt that this plaquette is a German work of the seventeenth century, as Middeldorf and Goetz think.
Other specimen: (bronze) Santa Barbara, University Art Gallery, Morgenroth Collection.

Bibl.: Morgenroth, no. 416, pl. 28; Weber, no. 903.