The Holy Family with Elizabeth and
John the Baptist, Simone Cantarini
Simone Cantarini
The Holy Family with Elizabeth and John the Baptist
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Simone Cantarini

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


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120 x 114 mm
Physical Description
Pen in brown, framed on all sides by a hand-drawn line in brown
Inventory Number
4022
Object Number
4022 Z
Status
On display, Department of Prints and Drawings Exhibition Gallery

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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.

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15.11.2024