Art, literature & history
The Infant Christ Embracing the Cross (The Dream of Joseph)
1635/1637
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Collection no.
- 1972.66.47
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Pietro Testa. The Infant Christ Embracing the Cross (The Dream of Joseph). Pietro Testa; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Infant Christ Embracing the Cross (The Dream of Joseph) — Pietro Testa. 1635/1637.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1972.66.47. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.