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The Holy Family with an Angel offering a Honeycomb to the Christ Child

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called Il Morazzone (Morazzone, near Varese 1573 – Piacenza 1626)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

1570 - 1625

Materials

Oil on canvas

Measurements

1930 x 1245 mm (76 x 49 in)

Place of origin

Italy

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Collection

Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire

NT 108858

Caption

The Holy Family was one of the favourite subjects of this Milanese artist. Formerly attributed to Niccolo dell' Abate, this picture was recorded in the Library at Kedleston in 1769. However, the original painting was recently re-discovered in the Oratory of Santa Maria Maddalena at Moretta and is based on a signed drawing by Morazzone in the Royal Collection. The symbolism of the Christ Child being offered a honeycomb by an angel derives from the biblical book of Isaiah (7:15) in which it is prophesised: “a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel...Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good”. And there is an inscription in Latin on the phylactery in the drawing and the Moretta altarpiece which alludes to it: EN MEL A PRVDENS EMANVEL ECCE BVTIRV[?].

Summary

Oil painting on canvas, The Holy Family with an Angel offering a Honeycomb to the Christ Child by Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called Il Morazzone (Morazzone, near Varese 1573 – Piacenza 1626). The symbolism of the Christ Child being offered a honeycomb by an angel derives from a biblical reference in Isaiah 7:15 - immediately after the crucial prophecy of: “a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” is: “Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good”. The painting is based upon an autograph drawing by Morazzone in the Royal Collection.

Provenance

Recorded in the Library in 1769 as Niccolò dell'Abate; bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)

Credit line

Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to The National Trust in 1987)

Marks and inscriptions

Verso: in chalk on back of lining canvas, in flowing script: Carlo Lutti fecit.

Makers and roles

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, called Il Morazzone (Morazzone, near Varese 1573 – Piacenza 1626), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Giulio Cesare Proccaccini (Bologna.1574 – Milan 1625), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Nicolò dell'Abate (Modena 1509/12 - Fontainebleau 1571), artist

References

Laing 2000 Alastair Laing, ‘Morazzone’s ‘Madonna del miele’’, letter in The Burlington Magazine, February 2000, p.112 & fig.78.

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