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Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Joseph

Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Joseph

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Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Joseph
ArtistItalian (Venetian), c. 1480–1531
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Joseph
Datec. 1525
PlaceVenice, Italy
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 5/16 × 41 inches (76.8 × 104 cm.)
 frame: 40 1/4 × 50 1/2 inches (102.2 × 128.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Samuel H. Kress Collection
Object number61.61
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
203 Crane Gallery
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Department
Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean
Object Type
ProvenanceCol. Sir Charles Wyndham Murray [1844-1928]; [his sale, Christie's, London, March 15, 1929, no. 96, as by Cima]; Arthur L. Nicholson; George H. Winterbottom, London; [his sale, Christie's, London, 20 December 1935, no. 101] [1]; W.H.G. Turner; [Giuseppe Bellesi, London] in 1936; [David Koetser Gallery, London] [2]; [Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, (1878-1955), Rome-Florence]; sold to Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955) June 16, 1937; on loan to the Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1938; returned to the Kress Foundation, 1952; given to MFAH, December, 1961.


[1] Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Italian Schools XV-XVI Centuries, New York, 1968, p. 155, mistakenly gives as cat. no. 13. It was sold with a certificate from v. Hadeln.

[2] According to the Zeri Photo Archives the painting was in London with Bellesi before Contini. Also per annotated photo mount in the Witt Library, London, which also gives Koetser.

Exhibition HistoryExhibited: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1938 to 1952

Exhibited: First Methodist Church, Houston, 1967

Exhibited: “Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Baffer Foundation," touring Japan from April 13 thru October 3, 1999. Exhibition venues:The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, 13 April - 30 May 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Chiba, Japan, 5 June - 11 July 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, 17 July - 22 August 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 27 August - 3 October 1999. Exhibition catalogue (in Japanese only).

Published References The Published Reference field contains references for books, articles, and other sources that include text about and/or illustrations of MFAH objects. "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: A Guide to the Collection," intro. by William C. Agee, entry by J. Patrice Marandel, No. 72 (1981) Dr. Carolyn C. Wilson, "Italian Paintings XIV-XVI in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in association with Rice University Press and Merrell Holberton Publishers, London, 1996, cat. no. 33 Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, published by the Museum of Art, Ehime; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum; Mie Prefectural Art Museum; Fukuoka Art Museum; and the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japan Association of Art Museums, 1999. (Exhibition catalogue in Japanese only.) p. 70, illus. p. 71, cat. no. 11. Edgar Peters Bowron and Mary G. Morton, Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, p.34-36, 35 (illus.) La Pittura nel Veneto: Il Cinquecento (3rd volume). Electa, 1996, p.951-952. [ND 619 .V46 P565 1996 v.3]

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