St. Joseph and Christ Child

1840

Leopold Kupelwieser (Austrian, 1796–1862)

Status: On View, Gallery 221
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Leopold Kupelwieser
Title: St. Joseph and Christ Child
Place: Austria (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1840
Medium: Oil on copper
Dimensions: 33.5 × 17.4 cm (13 3/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Framed: 40.7 × 24.8 × 4.5 cm (16 × 9 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Maria Hussa Greve
Reference Number: 1982.1670
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Sold S. Kende, Vienna, June 1934 [according to handwritten tag on backing paper removed from painting, now in curatorial file, which also bears a partially legible official stamp: “…[stube]freigegeben…”]. Maria Hussa Greve (died 1980), Chicago, probably by 1934 [in 1934 Maria Hussa Greve, a noted Viennese opera singer, emigrated to Chicago according to Biografisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933, vol. 2 (1983), p. 565]; bequest to the Art Institute, 1982.

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