Joshua before the Lord

c. 1270

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tempera and gold leaf on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 48.7 x 71 cm (19 3/16 x 27 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 37, State B

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Dr. Erwin Rosenthal, Berkeely, CA); Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to the National Gallery, 1946.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1956

  • Life and Lives in the Renaissance, Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; and Columbia Museum of Art, SC, 1956, no. 43.

1972

  • Mediaeval Manuscripts from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame, 1972, no. 7.

1975

  • Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 37B, repro.

2009

  • Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.

Bibliography

1975

  • National Gallery of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1975: no. 37, B.

Wikidata ID

Q64570754

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