The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Denys Calvaert, Flemish, about 1540 - 1619
about 1570-1573
Oil on canvas
Overall: 34 3/4 × 25 1/2 in. (88.3 × 64.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W‘18 Fund
P.994.3
Geography/Culture
Europe, Belgium
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Painting
Classification
Nazi-Era Provenance Research
Painting
On view
Inscription
Signed, top center: Dionisio Calvaert de Antversa; inscribed, top right, on scroll: Ecce Angnus [Dei]
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019
HIST 43.2, European Intellectual and Cultural History 1400-1800, Darrin McMahon, Fall 2015
ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ITAL 22, Humanism and Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2014
ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Jonathan Mullins, Fall 2013
ITAL 3, Introductory Italian III, Anna Minardi, Fall 2013
Exhibition History
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19, 2013-present.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1997-January 14, 2008.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4, 1994-June 22, 1997.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20, 2009-August 2013.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 6, 2020.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Publication History
Veronique Sulzer, sub-editor, Chronique des Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1995
Upper Valley Magazine Preview of the Arts, Upper Valley Magazine, West Lebanon: Van Etten, Inc, 1994, ill. p. 65
T. Barton Thurber, Twenty Years of Building a Collection: The Hood Museum of Art, Apollo (Vol. 162, no. 526), December 2005, London: Apollo Magazine, 2005, pp. 46-53, ill. p.49.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 40, ill., no. 8.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, ill. p.400, fig. 13
Leo Steinberg, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, 2nd edition, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Celide Masini, Gli splendori della Vergogna: La collezione dei dipinti dell'Opera Pia dei Poveri Vergognosi, Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1995, p. 21, p. 211, ill. p. 23
Provenance
Galerie Gismondi, Paris, 1988; Private collection, France, date unknown; Sotheby‘s, sale no. 18, January 14, 1994; sold to Robert Dance, Inc., New York; sold to present collection, 1994.
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