The Holy Family
1776
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 87 × 68.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-112366
A work of Gandolfi's later years, The Holy Family was exhibited in the religious festival at the church of San Procolo in Bologna in 1776. The painting's balanced composition, along with the suggestion of emotional connections among the figures, expresses the religious honesty of Gandolfi's art. Here St. Joseph holds the scriptures for the Christ child, who sits on his mother's lap; the elderly Joseph also holds the flowering rod, a sign from heaven that he was chosen to be Mary's husband. Joseph looks with concern toward Mary, who in turn looks up toward the cherubim hovering in a cloud at t…
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1998.10
Registry history
- 1776 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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