The Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth and the infant Baptist: 651

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth and the infant Baptist

Maker(s)

Painter: Jacopino del Conte (Attributed to)

Entities

Painting

Notes

History note: Panciatichi family, Florence

Measurements and weight

Depth: 15 cm
Height: 100.3 cm
Width: 103.8 cm
Width: 76.7 cm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1908) by Murray, Charles Fairfax

Note

Formerly attributed to the Florentine School.

See J.Shearman, Andrea del Sarto, I, 1965, p. 170, n.4, as by J.d.C., slightly after 1535. See also:- Iris Cheney, "Notes on J.d.C." in Art Bulletin, LII, no. 1, 1970, p. 34, repr. fig. 3, as by J.d.C & compared to Madonna Child with St. John in Uffizio (fig. 2).

School or Style

Italian
Florentine School

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Oil paint

Components of the work

Support composed of panel (wood)
Frame Height 128.7 cm

Techniques used in production

Painting (image-making) : Oil on panel

References and bibliographic entries

The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge page(s): 124
The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1929) page(s): 64
Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Italian School page(s): 52-53

Identification numbers

Accession number: 651
Primary reference Number: 366
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 20 May 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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