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Besides a rather obvious reference to the Holy Family, this painting

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is interesting for its description of the quiet domestic environnment

Technical facts

Inventory number
MIH V-430
Object type
Painting
Dating
second half of the 19th c.
Materials and techniques (catalogue wording)
Peinture à l'huile, Toile
Dimensions (catalogue)
dimensions: 49.3 x 40.3 cm
Inscriptions (catalogue)
ZUBER-BÜHLER

Historical significance

  • is interesting for its description of the quiet domestic environnment
  • in which a watchmaker from the Neuchâtel Jura earned his living.

Photographs

Besides a rather obvious reference to the Holy Family, this painting (MIH V-430)
Besides a rather obvious reference to the Holy Family, this painting (MIH V-430) — Musée international d'horlogerie, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Museum collection photograph, rights review pending. MIH collection record

Photographs are illustrative examples of the type, not necessarily the exact object described. Verify details against the source file page.

Sources & references

  1. Musée international d'horlogerie, online collection record, inv. V-430: https://collection.mih.ch/fr/collection/item/33027/

Where sources disagree, the disagreement is stated rather than resolved silently.