Het Christuskind als Salvator Mundi met verscheidene heiligen en paus Clemens XIII, Johann Beheim, after Franz Anton Maulbertsch, 1762

Title(s)

Het Christuskind als Salvator Mundi met verscheidene heiligen en paus Clemens XIII
Maximus in Sanctis est parvulus ille Puellus (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2011-156

Description

Het Christuskind met kruis gezeten op een wereldbol met daaronder de heiligen Franciscus Seraphikus, Christophorus, Theresa van Avila en paus Clemens XIII.

Artist

• printmaker: Johann Beheim (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Franz Anton Maulbertsch (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Johann Beheim (mentioned on object)

Place

Vienna

Dating

1762

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 446 mm × width 286 mm

What

• Christ-child together with others
• Christ-child ~ types of adult Christ (+ donor(s), supplicant(s), whether or not with patron saint(s))
• the foundress of the reformed (Discalced) Carmelites, T(h)eres(i)a of Avila; possible attributes: angel, arrow, dove, heart (flaming or pierced by an arrow)
• the giant and martyr Christophorus; possible attributes: palm-tree (with bunches of dates, or withered), infant Christ
• the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier; possible attributes: cross, crucifix, flaming heart, Indian, lily, torch

Who

• Clemens XIII

Credit line

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

Acquisition

purchase Dec-2011

Copyright

Public domain

• Druckgraphik, Miscellaneen und Trouvaillen 15.-19. Jahrhundert., Galerie Gerda Bassenge, p. 165, cat.nr. 5349