The Madonna and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist, Mary Magdalen and Saint Zacharias (Madonna di San Zaccaria) (after Parmigianino)
after Parmigianino (Parma 1503 – Casalmaggiore 1540)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
762 x 610 mm (30 x 24 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 20937
Caption
Zacharias was High Priest of the Temple of Jerusalem whose son’s birth was foretold to him by the angel Gabriel. As he and his wife Elizabeth were old and childless he was struck dumb by his disbelief and whose speech only came back to him was he agreed with his wife over the naming his child. Eight days after he was born, according to Jewish religion, he wrote on a tablet: His name is John. He is seen here in an extraordinarily innovative position: in the foreground, with his back to us but his face almost in profile This is a copy of an original painting by the Mannerist, Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino (little one from Parma), painted in his inimitable elongated style in Bologna in 1528, and now in the Uffizi, Florence.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, The Madonna and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist, Mary Magdalen and Saint Zacharias, after Parmigianino (Parma 1503 – Casalmaggiore 1540), 19th century. A copy of an original painting, of 1605, in the Uffizi, Florence
Provenance
Lord Northwick sale, Phillips, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, 3 August 1859, lot no. 584 (100 gns); bought by William Gibbs (1790-1875); purchased by the National Trust from the estate of the late George Richard Lawley Gibbs, 2nd Baron Wraxall (1928 – 2001) with the assistance of the NHMF, Art Fund and donations from members and supporters in 2002
Credit line
Tyntesfield, The Gibbs Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Parmigianino (Parma 1503 – Casalmaggiore 1540), publisher