Artist
Vincenzo Catena (Italian (Venetian), c. 1480–1531)Italian (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)
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
Exposé
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Department
Arts of Europe and the MediterraneanObject Type
[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).
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Scarsellino
c. 1600
Oil on canvas
97.118
Girolamo Marchesi
c. 1512
Oil on wood
78.1
c. 1340–1350
Tempera and gold leaf on panel
44.566
Sano di Pietro
c. 1460s
Tempera and gold leaf on panel
44.572
Vicente Carducho
c. 1626–1632
Oil on canvas
70.13