The Education of the Infant Christ

Rueland Frueauf, the Elder (Austrian, about 1440/1450–1507)

1506

Medium/TechniqueOil and tempera on panel

Dimensions61.9 x 72.1 cm (24 3/8 x 28 3/8 in.)

Credit LineErnest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund

Accession number49.1076

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ClassificationsPaintings

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Europe

InscriptionsLower left, on prie-dieu: 1506ProvenancePossibly Count Kaspar Maria Sternberg (b. 1761 - d. 1838), Prague [see note 1]; until 1949, by descent within the family to Countess Sternberg, Prague; 1949, sold by Countess Sternberg, through M. Glueckselig and Son, New York, to the MFA for $3500. (Accession Date: October 13, 1949)

NOTES:
[1] Hanns Swarzenski, in the MFA Bulletin, XLVIII, no. 273 (October, 1950), p. 55, stated that the painting "comes from the Gallery of Kaspar Count Sternberg in Prague, which, incidentally, was praised by Goethe." His source of this information is not known.