The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist
c. 1650/1660
Artist, Italian, 1638 - 1665
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 29.4 x 21.9 cm (11 9/16 x 8 5/8 in.)
sheet: 31 x 23.5 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1968.5.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch, no. 8, State ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1967, cat. 46, no. 189); (Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara, CA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1967; gift to NGA, 1968.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1989
Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,1989, no. 64, repro.
2021
By Her Hand: Artemesia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 2021-2022.
By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 2021 - 2022, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.
1976
Bellini, Paolo. "Catalogue des Estampes d'Elisabetta Sirani." Nouvelles de l'Estampe, vol. 6, no. 30 (Nov/Dec 1976), p. 11, no. 8, iii/iii.
1989
Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque. Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989: no.64.
Inscriptions
lower right, in image, in plate: Siranus In.; verso, lower left, in graphite: 7586
Markings
verso, lower right, stamped in black ink: 7262
Watermarks
circle bisected by chain line, w/ marks in lower half
Wikidata ID
Q65508289