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Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

The Holy Family

Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
Contact us at copyright@samuseum.org for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Ansen Seale.

The Holy Family

Artist: (Italian, 1466 - 1513)
Artist (after): (Italian, 1483 - 1561)
Artist: (Italian, 1475 - 1554)
Place made:Florence, Italy, Europe
Culture: Italian
Date: ca. 1505-1510
Medium: Oil on panel (tondo)
Dimensions:
diam. 38 1/4 in. (97.2 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object number: 37.6785
Provenance: sold by Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955), Rome-Florence, to Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), New York, 1930; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, by gift to the Witte Museum, San Antonio, 1937; transferred to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1994
Published References L. Venturini, "Il maestro del 1506: La tarda attività di Bastiano Mainardi," Studi di Storia dell'Arte 5/6 (1994/1995), 141, n. 125. [attributed to the workshop of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio] C. Daly, “Two Reconstructions for Ghirlandaio’s Workshop and a New Altarpiece by Bastiano Mainardi,” Arte cristiana 110 (2022) 313, 315 n. 40. [attributed to Bastiano Mainardi]
Label Text
The tondo, or circular painting, became a popular format for devotional images in the private quarters of wealthy families’ houses in Renaissance Florence. Like this one, many depict the Christ Child with the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. This painting has recently been attributed to Bastiano Mainardi, brother-in-law of the prominent Florentine painter Domenico Ghirlandaio and a member of the Ghirlandaio family’s workshop. Samuel H. Kress, a self-made department store magnate, acquired The Holy Family in Italy in 1930. Kress shared his love of European art by distributing works from his vast collection to museums around the country. (J. Powers, 2021)
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