The 50 plates / Plate 41 of 50
Plate 41 of 50
Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Darstellung Christi im Tempel
Paolo Veronese
Not yet located
The drawing
A lively architectural composition depicting the presentation of the infant Christ in the Temple. Figures crowd around an elevated altar, where a priest receives the child, while attendants and onlookers gather beneath towering arches and columns. Rapid pen strokes and broad washes establish the figures, flowing garments, and monumental interior.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Paolo Veronese
- Title as printed
- Darstellung Christi im Tempel
- Title in English
- Presentation of Christ in the Temple
- Medium and size
- Pen, pale yellow-gray wash, 17 × 29 cm
- Collection in 1922
- Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Lützschena
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Paolo Veronese, as attributed by Becker. No independent modern attribution of this exact drawing has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 41.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.