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The Education of the Infant Christ

(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
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower left, on prie-dieu: 1506
ProvenancePossibly 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.
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