The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Anne, a landscape beyond
Details
Giovanni Rafaele Badaracco (1648-1726)
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Anne, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
49 7/8 x 67¼in. (126.7 x 170.8cm.)
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Anne, a landscape beyond
oil on canvas
49 7/8 x 67¼in. (126.7 x 170.8cm.)
Provenance
Possibly, Anon. Sale, Christie's, 24 Jan. 1772, lot 59, as 'C. Maratta, the holy family' (25gns. to [Captain William] Baillie).
John, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) and by descent at Luton Park (1797-9 inventory, in the Library, 'Carlo Marat, a holy family'; 1799 inventory, p. 91, as 'Carlo Marat'; January 1800 inventory, in the East Library, no. 109, as 'Carlo Maratti'; 1822 inventory, no. 11, in the Old Drawing Room, as 'Carlo Marat') and elsewhere.
John, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792) and by descent at Luton Park (1797-9 inventory, in the Library, 'Carlo Marat, a holy family'; 1799 inventory, p. 91, as 'Carlo Marat'; January 1800 inventory, in the East Library, no. 109, as 'Carlo Maratti'; 1822 inventory, no. 11, in the Old Drawing Room, as 'Carlo Marat') and elsewhere.
Literature
G.F. Waagen, Works of Art and Artists in England, London, 1838, III, p. 375, 'An uncommonly pleasing picture, extremely warm and clear in the colouring, and careful in the execution'.
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, III, p. 484.
J.P. Richter, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures lent for Exhibition by the Marquis of Bute, K.T., London, 1883, no. 22.
G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, III, p. 484.
J.P. Richter, Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures lent for Exhibition by the Marquis of Bute, K.T., London, 1883, no. 22.
Exhibited
Bethnal Green, 1883, no. 22.
Glasgow, 1884.
Glasgow, 1884.