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Christ and John the Baptist as Children, Embracing Each Other
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The subject matter of the embracing and caressing boys Jesus and John has its literary roots in apocryphal reports about the joyful reunion of the children after the return of the Holy Family from Egypt. The pictorial type goes back to an idea by Leonardo (cf. a drawing preserved in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, fig. 94 in: Joos van Cleve. Leonardo of the North, ed. by Peter van den Brinck, exh. cat. Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum 2011, p.
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineChristus und Johannes der Täufer als Kinder, einander umarmend. 16. Jh.. Nachfolger / follower: Joos van Cleve (Joos van der Beke) (um 1485–1540/41). Kunstmuseum Basel, Schenkung aus Privatbesitz. Public domain.
