Lot 141: Joseph Ignaz Mildorfer (Innsbruck 1719-1775

Joseph Ignaz Mildorfer
(Innsbruck 1719-1775 Vienna),
Saint Joseph as the Foster Father of Jesus,
oil on canvas, 56 x 48.5 cm, framed
Provenance: Coll. Pfatschbacher, Linz.
Literature: E. Leube-Payer, Joseph Ignaz Mildorfer 1719-1775, Vienna-Cologne-Weimar 2011, pp. 184-86 and p. 264.
Leube-Payer dates the present painting to the period around 1750/51. She writes: "Intimate devotional pictures suited the painter's sensitive temperament and can be found throughout his artistic periods. His Joseph as the Foster Father of Jesus certainly dates from his time as a professor (from 1751 on), since it was subsequently engraved by his student Jakob Mathias Schmutzer (1733-1811)."