A oil painting showing sleeping Christ Child among... Lot 8227
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A oil painting showing sleeping Christ Child among memento mori symbols, German, 1st half of the 18th century
Oil on canvas. Christ sleeping on a cross against a dark background. Leaning his blond curly head on one arm, he embraces the skull with the other, while two black flies crawl towards the child from below. An extinguished candle under the draped red curtain. Restored, small flaking in places, a hole in the left half of the painting. In a leaf-stuccoed and gilded wooden profile frame (restored). Image dimensions 48 x 64, dimensions framed 58 x 74 cm.
Condition: II - III
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