The Holy Family with Saint Catherine and the Infant Saint John
after Polidoro da Lanciano (Lanciano c.1515 – Venice 1565)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1570 - 1599
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1245 mm (39 x 49 in)
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719412
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (arched top), The Holy Family with Saint Catherine and the Infant Saint John, after Polidoro da Lanciano (Lanciano c.1515 – Venice 1565). The Madonna seated in a landscape with the Child on her lap; at the left Saint Catherine, with the wheel, a symbol of her matrydom (although not her death); at the right Saint Joseph with Saint John and the lamb in front.
Provenance
Bought in April 1847 for £12, as by Palma Vecchio; 1880s Notes, in the Ante Chapel, as: “Holy Family (Palma Vecchio)”; bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956)
Credit line
The Vyne, The Chute Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Formerly, on a label found by Mr. Rutley of 5, Great Newport Street, when restoring and varnishing all the pictures at The Vyne in 1888: Infant Christ, the Virgin Mary, St. John, St. Catherine and St. Joseph, by Titian [Chaloner Chute, who recorded this fact in a note dated 24 Dec.1888 (Hants R.O.: 31M57 652 ff 53) mistakenly believed this note to be in the hand of John Chute.
Makers and roles
after Polidoro da Lanciano (Lanciano c.1515 – Venice 1565), artist previously catalogued as after Bonifazio de' Pitati (Verona 1487 – Venice 1553), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jacopo Palma Negreti, known as Palma Vecchio (Lombardy c.1479 – Venice 1528), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Titian (Pieve di Cadore 1488/90 - Venice 1576), artist