The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist
manner of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1699
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1448 x 1194 mm (57 x 47 in)
Place of origin
Flanders
Order this imageCollection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108908
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, in the manner of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Seigen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), 17th century. The Holy family with infant John the Baptist in the foreground holding the Christ-child's leg. The infant cousins meet for the first time when they are both in Egypt.This is a a copy of a once celebrated painting, known as ‘the best picture of the Master in the Kingdom’, when the 9th Viscount Irwin bought it in 1765 for 200 guineas. This was in turn a reworking by Rubens of the central part of his Holy Family under the Apple Tree, painted as the outer shutter of the Altar of St Ildefonso for St Jacques-sur-Coudenberg in Brussels (1630-32), removed to Vienna in 1777 and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Provenance
Recorded in Staircase of Family wing in 1861; 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)
Makers and roles
manner of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640), artist