Drawings

Christ Among the Doctors in the Temple

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1939
Accession number: 2000.5.1070
Maker: Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Designer: designed by John Henry Dearle(Opens in new tab) (British, 1860–1932)
Dimensions: 12 3/4 x 9 3/8 in. (32.4 x 23.8 cm.)
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Description: Three lights and tracery. Left light shows Virgin Mary in blue and Joseph in brown over green. Central light shows young Christ in red, facing to right, two doctors behind them at the top of the temple steps. Right light shows doctor in patterned white and yellow over red, disputing with Christ; two other bearded figures behind him. Background of temple architecture, columns on either side, blue-curtained doorways. Scroll below running across three lights, on green ground. Small red and blue quatrefoils above (6).
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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