Maria Adoring the Child, 1835

ArtistErnst Deger, Bockenem (b. Hildesheim) 1809–1885 Düsseldorf

Oil on canvas

Dimensions without frame21,5 × 21 × 1,8 cm

Dimensions with frame35,5 × 36,2 × 4,5 cm

Status

on display, room 010.2

About the workErnst Deger’s serene and tranquil devotional paintings attracted considerable interest from contemporary art critics and the public. In 1836, for example, one critic praised the depiction of the child on the grass in this motif. In the exhibition he had visited, he recalled that the work was “everyone’s favourite”. Many pictures by Deger, who was one of the leading religious painters in Düsseldorf in the 1830s, were reproduced as prints and thus became even more famous. The Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia gave this image to its members as a copperplate engraving.

AccessionAcquisition 1939

Provenanceo.D. Sammlung Carl Ferdinand Sohn, Düsseldorf; o.D. Sammlung Heinz Küpper, Köln; ? - 1939 Carl Alfred Halbach; 1939 angekauft von Halbach

Inventory numberM 4544

Contact

sammlung@kunstpalast.de

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