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Saint Joseph and the Sleeping Christ Child, 1670/75. Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on beige wove card.
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on beige wove card · Primary support: 16.4 × 13.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Saint Joseph and the Sleeping Christ Child
- Artist
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Spanish, 1618-1682
- Date
- 1670/75
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on beige wove card
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 16.4 × 13.6 cm (6 1/2 × 5 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 17.9 × 15.3 cm (7 1/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.