Painting
- Title:
- Christ Child
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 2006.052.04
- Creator:
- Ingalls, Walter (1805-1874); Allori, Allessandro di Cristofano
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Portrait of the Christ Child, by Walter Ingalls (1805-1874), c. 1870. Oil on canvas. Copy after a painting by Allessandro di Cristofano Allori (1577-1621). Full-length recumbent sleeping child draped in white cloth lying on wooden cross. Rose in foreground. Townscape (Jerusalem) in right background with mountains and setting sun in distance. Unsigned. Period gilded rectangular frame with applied foliate decoration at corners.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-22.25 W-27.25 inches
- Provenance:
- One of four paintings owned by artist's son, Captain Napoleon Bonaparte Ingalls (1830-1922) of Portland, OR. The paintings descended to artist's great-grandson, George Leighton Jones of Burlingame, CA, who, upon his death in 1980, bequeathed them to donors.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Robert and Grace Bove
- Subjects:
- Christ, Crosses, Religion, Religious art objects
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