The Comiciro/Comero Family adoring the Madonna and Child
attributed to Domenico Tintoretto (Venice 1560 – Venice 1635) and Studio
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1600
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
3230 x 1918 x 90 mm
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257177
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Comiciro/Comero Family adoring the Madonna and Child, Venetian School, circa 1600, previously by a follower of Domenico Tintoretto (Venice 1560 – Venice 1635). The family, consisting of father and mother, eight sons (six live, two dead), three daughters (one live, two dead), and a mature man and two women (brother and sisters?) adore a larger-than-life apparition of the Madonna seated on a dais holding the Christ Child, who turns to her whilst indicating the family, on her lap. The deceased boys are denoted by wings and spiked coronets, the dead girls just by crowns; one of the two, being shown in the bosom of the family, rather than behind the Madonna and Child, seems to have died whilst the picture was still being painted.
Provenance
probably acquired by William John Bankes in the 1840s, but first recorded in 1905; bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1905
Credit line
Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
attributed to Domenico Tintoretto (Venice 1560 – Venice 1635) and Studio, artist Italian (Venetian) School , artist previously catalogued as follower of Domenico Tintoretto (Venice 1560 – Venice 1635), artist