St. Joseph and Christ Child

Quick Overview

Artist: Leopold Kupelwieser (Austrian, 1796–1862)
Date: 1840
Medium: Oil on copper
Dimensions: 33.5 × 17.4 cm (13 3/16 × 6 5/8 in.); Framed: 40.7 × 24.8 × 4.5 cm (16 × 9 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: oil on copper
Style: nineteenth century
Place: Austria
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Bequest of Maria Hussa Greve
Accession no.: 1982.1670

Provenance

Sold S. Kende, Vienna, June 1934 [according to handwritten tag on backing paper removed from painting, now in curatorial file, which also bears a partially legible official stamp: "...[stube]freigegeben..."]. Maria Hussa Greve (died 1980), Chicago, probably by 1934 [in 1934 Maria Hussa Greve, a noted Viennese opera singer, emigrated to Chicago according to Biografisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933, vol. 2 (1983), p. 565]; bequest to the Art Institute, 1982.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.