Heilige Christoffel met het Christuskind, Lodewijk Schelfhout, 1922

Title(s)

Heilige Christoffel met het Christuskind
Saint Christophe (original title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1952-973

Catalogue reference

• Schelfhout 99-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760
• collector's mark: Lugt 5i

Description

Christoffel draagt het Christuskind op zijn schouders over het water.

Artist

• print maker: Lodewijk Schelfhout (signed by artist)
• printer: Roeloffzen & Hübner

Dating

1922

Material

• paper

Technique

drypoint

Measurements

height 595 mm × width 493 mm

What

• St. Christopher, with the infant Christ on his shoulders, wading through the water and carrying his staff (palm-tree); sometimes a hermit stands on the further bank beside a chapel, a lantern in his hand

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1952

Copyright

Public domain

• Catalogue des pointes-sèches de Lodewijk Schelfhout, cat.nr. 99