Virgin and Child with Infant John the Baptist
after Italian School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1601 (inventory)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1020 x 900 mm
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
NT 1129240
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Virgin and Child with Infant John the Baptist, after Italian School, 16th century. The Virgin is seated in a landscape with ribbon in her hair, the infant at her breast, the infant John at her left.
Provenance
In Inventory of the contents of Hardwick Hall made in 1601 and attached to the will of Elizabeth Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury (c.1520-1608); thence by descent until, following the death of Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire (1895 - 1950), Hardwick Hall and its contents were accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death duties and transferred to the National Trust, in 1959
Credit line
Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Italian School, artist