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Joseph the Carpenter

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Joseph the Carpenter is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Georges de La Tour, made around 1642. It shows the young Jesus holding a candle to light the work of his earthly father Joseph, who is boring a hole in a piece of wood with an auger, an object read as a foreshadowing of the cross. Painted in the tenebrist manner characteristic of La Tour, with a single candle flame as the only light source casting deep shadows across the two figures, the work measures about 130 by 100 centimetres and is held in the Louvre in Paris. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Partially Attested
Year Created
1642 1
Source dates the painting circa 1642, not an exact year.
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Louvre, Paris 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
Connections

Created By

Georges de La Tour, Artists
Source Joseph the Carpenter (Wikipedia)

In Form

Painting, Art Forms
Source Joseph the Carpenter (Wikipedia)

In Genre

Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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Sources
1. Joseph the Carpenter (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, Year
    created circa 1642
  • Infobox, Medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Infobox, Location
    Louvre, Paris
  • Genre reference
    Joseph the Carpenter is an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Georges de La Tour, made around 1642.
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Joseph the Carpenter is an oil painting by Georges de La Tour created circa 1642. The painting depicts a young Jesus with Saint Joseph, his earthly father. Joseph drills a piece of wood with an auger. The shape of the auger reflec
  • Created By: Georges de La Tour, lead paragraph
    Joseph the Carpenter is an oil painting by Georges de La Tour created circa 1642. The painting depicts a young Jesus with Saint Joseph, his earthly father. Joseph drills a piece of wood with an auger. The shape of the auger reflec
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