The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

This painting derives from the prototype in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, Lugano (M. Jaff, Rubens, Catalogo Completo, Milan, 1989, p. 200, no. 281). Jaff records two workshop replicas and a reduced copy, and also refers to a print of the same composition by Schelte a Bolswert.

The Italian seventeenth-century carved and gilded frame can be purchased at Christie's South Kensington, Fine Picture Frames sale, 26 May 1999 (10,000-15,000).