The Holy Family with Elizabeth and John the Baptist, ca. 1642 – 1645

About the Work

The composition has been so loosely executed as to make the subjects’ identification difficult. At any rate we have Mary, the Christ Child and Joseph at the right. As for the standing figure at the left, however, we can only guess that it must be St Elizabeth, based on her advanced age and direct exchange with Mary. The object of Jesus’s attention, on the other hand, is the Infant St John accompanying her, his body no more than an allusion.