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The Holy Family with St. Catherine and St. Ursula, First third of the 16th century

Attributed to Master of 1518

Exhibited by De Jonckheere

Material Panel

Dimensions 55 x 37 cm

Place of Creation Antwerp

Status Vetted

About the Work

Painted on an arched oak panel, this painting shows the Holy Family accompanied by St. Catherine and St. Ursula in a crystalline hilly landscape.

The centre of the composition is occupied by the Virgin Mary who is holding the Infant Jesus against her breast. She is sitting on a brick container filled with plants whose vertical branches give the impression that the Virgin is sitting on a sort of natural sofa. To the right of the Virgin is her husband Joseph, who is leaning on the container.

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Provenance

Lyversberg Collection, Cologne, 1837;
Count Gregory Stroganoff Collection, Rome, 1911;
Roerich Museum, New York;
Collection of Henry L. Moses, New York, 1930;
Inherited by Lucy G. Moses, New York, 1961;
De Jonckheere Gallery, Paris, 1991;
Private collection, Spain.

Literature

Muñoz and L. Pollak, Pièces de Choix de la Collection du Comte Grégoire Stroganoff à Rome, Rome, vol. 2, 1911, p. 63, fig. XLV;
M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting: The Antwerp Mannerists, Leiden, vol. XI, 1974, pp. 31-32 and 75, cat. no. 79, p. 77, reproduction.