The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist
after Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi) (Ferrara 1481 - Ferrara 1559)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
876 x 1448 mm (34 1/2 x 57 in)
Place of origin
Ferrara
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609023
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist, after Garofalo (Ferrara 1481 - Ferrara 1559), 19th century. The Holy Family seated; from left to right: Saint Elizabeth, John's mother, seated, turned three-quarters to right, head slightly bowed, hair covered with turban tied under chin, her right hand touching a lamb in the bottom left corner; her son, Saint John, as a child, seated, naked except for single drape over left shoulder and right knee, turned to right, right profile; Joseph, seated, facing, head inclined to the left and slightly bowed, long beard; Christ as a child, standing, naked, a drape held to his right side by the Virgin, he leans towards Saint John; Virgin, seated, facing, hair uncovered and lying on her right shoulder, holds the Christ child under his arms; landscape setting, trees and shrubs dominating the right hand side of the background, the left is a distant view of a mountain in front of which is a fortified city with a classical temple and Romanesque towers; wild flowers depicted across most of the foreground. The infant cousins meet for the first time when they are both in Egypt.
Provenance
Attingham collection. 1847 Catalogue of Paintings p.8; 1913 Inventory p.65; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On reverse of canvas: traces of a label On stretcher (top): Lord Berwick 7 & 8 On stretcher (top): 7 On stretcher (bottom): ATT/P/087 On reverse of frame (top): Lord Berwick 43 (or No. 3 ?) On reverse of frame (bottom): ATT/P/087 On reverse of frame (right): 7
Makers and roles
after Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi) (Ferrara 1481 - Ferrara 1559), artist