Joseph explains his dream to his brothers and father in an interior setting; the sun, moon, and stars above a landscape in the portal beyond, from the series 'The Story of Joseph'

1544

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: sheet: 4 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (11.1 x 7.5 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.136.762.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Georg Pencz. Joseph explains his dream to his brothers and father in an interior setting; the sun, moon, and stars above a landscape in the portal beyond, from the series 'The Story of Joseph'. Georg Pencz; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Joseph explains his dream to his brothers and father in an interior setting; the sun, moon, and stars above a landscape in the portal beyond, from the series 'The Story of Joseph' — Georg Pencz. 1544.

Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: sheet: 4 3/8 x 2 15/16 in. (11.1 x 7.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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