The sleeping Joseph, his elbow propped on the table and the Infant Christ on his lap, receives the angel’s warning to flee and thus avoid the massacre of children ordered by King Herod (Matthew 2, 13). This is one of López’s most important religious compositions from his early career as a mature artist in Valencia.
Díez, José Luis, Vicente López: (1772-1850). Catálogo razonado, II, Fundación de Apoyo a la Historia del Arte Hispánico, Madrid, 1999, pp. 31/lám.71.
Díez, J.L (dir.), Pintura del Siglo XIX en el Museo del Prado: catálogo general, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2015, pp. 330.
Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 2544.
Vicente Lopez ft. en 1805
Signed and dated.
Front, lower left corner
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