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The Holy Family on the Return from the Temple
From the collection of Kunstmuseum Basel. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The origin of the attribution to François Boucher's successor as royal first court painter remains unclear. Nicolas Lesur and Olivier Aaron (Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, 1714–1789, premier peintre du roi, Paris, 2009) apparently do not consider Inv. 487. The return journey of the Holy Family from the Temple in Jerusalem, where the twelve-year-old had debated with the scribes, back to Nazareth – mentioned in a single sentence in Luke 2:51 – has been a frequent theme since the Counter-Reformation and...
Kunstmuseum Basel’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDie Heilige Familie auf der Rückkehr vom Tempel. 1701–1800. zugeschrieben / attributed to: Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre (1714–1789). Kunstmuseum Basel, Birmann-Sammlung. Public domain.
