Metadata: Fireback
- Artist | Manufacturer:
- Unknown maker | Caster
- Title:
- Fireback
- Date:
- Creation: around 1696
- Inventory Number:
- 1959-S61/
- Collection:
- Firebacks
- Domain:
- Metallurgy
- Designation:
- Fireback
- Iconography:
- Holy Family
- Flight into Egypt
- Material | Technique:
- Cast iron
- Measurements:
- H x L x P: 69 x 72 x 2.5 cm
- Inscription(s):
- Date (1696)
- Inscription (DEP)
- Description:
- Fireback representing the Holy Family or the Flight into Egypt. The Virgin and Saint Joseph are each holding the infant Jesus, who is holding a walking stick in his right hand. Above, God the Father in the midst of clouds, beneath him the Holy Spirit. The date 1696 is at the same height as the Holy Spirit. The subject is incompletely rendered at the top, bottom and sides.
- Geographical Reference:
- Place of use: Luxembourg
- Location:
- Depot
- Acquisition method:
- This object has been retro-inventoried. The circumstances of its arrival in the collection are currently not known. If you have any information that might be useful to the work’s provenance, please contact digital@mnaha.etat.lu .
- Acquisition date:
- 1959
- Copyright:
-
Work: Public Domain
Image(s): CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) | Collection of the Musée national d'archéologie, d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg (MNAHA)
Metadata: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0)
- Photographer:
- Tom Lucas
- Metadata last updated on:
- 12.03.2026
