Joseph Adoring the Christ Child near a Smoking Altar, from the Flight into Egypt

1752

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: plate (trimmed to platemark) : 7 1/16 x 9 5/16 in. (17.9 x 23.7 cm)
Collection no.: 2006.97
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Joseph Adoring the Christ Child near a Smoking Altar, from the Flight into Egypt. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2006. 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 Adoring the Christ Child near a Smoking Altar, from the Flight into Egypt — Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. 1752.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: plate (trimmed to platemark) : 7 1/16 x 9 5/16 in. (17.9 x 23.7 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2006.

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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