The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John
after Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 – Bologna 1642)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
368 x 292 mm (14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108864
Summary
Oil painting on copper, The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John, after Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 – Bologna 1642), 17th century. The infant cousins meet for the first time when they are both in Egypt. First recorded in the Withdrawing Room in 1771, this little painting has a distinguished provenance: the duc de Tallard (who owned the so-called 'Tallard Madonna', circle of Giorgione, now in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford); Dr Bragge's sale in 1757, and John Barnard. These help to show how seriously its old attribution to Guido Reni was taken; and indeed, it does appear to have been inspired by a little painting on copper of the same subject by Reni, which was once in the collection of Louis XIV.
Provenance
Collection of duc de Tallard (1652–1728); bought by Dr Bragge (d. 1777); Dr Bragge’s sale, 1757; recorded in 'John Barnard's House Berkeley Square in London and Environs, 1761'; acquired from John Barnard (1709 - 1784) and recorded in Kedleston in 1766; gifted to the National Trust in 1986 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
Recto: Guido Reni (mark, painted, botton rhs of frame, black text) Verso: Inscribed on back of frame: Guido / bought by R.Bragge 1756 / at the Duc de Tallards Sale. Verso: Inscribed on the back of the copper plate: J: B-- / No:13. / Guido
Makers and roles
after Guido Reni (Bologna 1575 – Bologna 1642), artist