The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist, c. 1650/1660

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.4 x 21.9 cm (11 9/16 x 8 5/8 in.)

sheet: 31 x 23.5 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 8, State ii

Accession Number

1968.5.1

Artists / Makers

Elisabetta Sirani (artist) Italian, 1638 - 1665

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, in image, in plate: Siranus In.; verso, lower left, in graphite: 7586

Marks and Labels

verso, lower right, stamped in black ink: 7262

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1967, cat. 46, no. 189); (Robert M. Light, Santa Barbara, CA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1967; gift to NGA, 1968.

Associated Names

Light, Robert M., Mr.

Exhibition History

1989: Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,1989, no. 64, repro.

2021: By Her Hand: Artemesia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500-1800, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 2021-2022.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1976: Bellini, Paolo. "Catalogue des Estampes d'Elisabetta Sirani." Nouvelles de l'Estampe, vol. 6, no. 30 (Nov/Dec 1976), p. 11, no. 8, iii/iii.

1989: Reed, Sue Welsh and Richard Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque. Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989: no.64.