The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist
about 1550-1560
66.233
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
19-1/2 x 15 in. approximately 28-1/2 x 24 x 2-1/4 in. (framed)
Accession Number
Credit Line
Martha Delzell Memorial Fund
Copyright
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800
Color Palette
Provenance
Captain O.E.(?), Yelverton, Devon, England.{1} Possibly Achillito Chieso, Milan, Italy. Possibly William Randolph Hearst.{2} Sale at (Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne) in 1957.{3} (H. Shickman Gallery, New York, New York) by 1966;{4} Purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1966 (66.233). ------- {1} See a partially illegible label on the back of the painting’s frame. {2} Both these names of owners, Chieso and Hearst, are cited in an exhibition catalogue, but have not been verified. See The Age of Vasari: A Loan Exhibition, Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame and University Art Gallery, SUNY at Binghamton, 1970, catalogue P4, p. 31, 37 (illustration) {3} Gemälde des 15. – 18. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 21 November 1957, no. 29 as “Jacopino del Conte.” {4} IMA Temporary Receipt No. 7725, dated 7 June 1966.
Gallery Labels
Unlike earlier painters of this traditional subject, Nosadella aimed for neither "sweetness" nor "devoutness," qualities that contemporaries desired in devotional paintings by artists like Bellini and Francia. Nosadella's work was instead valued for its power and erudition. He invests his figures with an almost grotesque muscularity and packs the composition with a sense of congested intimacy that borders on awkwardness. The central act of the Virgin's presentation of the Christ Child is literally inverted, so that her back is turned and her restless child reaches backward toward the viewer.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Chengdu Museum
September 28, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Chengdu Museum
September 29, 2020 - January 4, 2021
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Hunan Provincial Museum
May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020
Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
Guandong Museum
January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020
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