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Giambattista Pittoni (Venice 1687-1767)

The Holy Family

细节

Giambattista Pittoni (Venice 1687-1767)
The Holy Family
oil on canvas
32 1/8 x 25 3/8 in. (81.5 x 64.4 cm.)

来源

Eugenio Ventura, Florence.
with Captain Robert Langton Douglas, London and New York, by whom bequeathed to
Mrs. R. Langton Douglas, later Mrs. Edward Fowles, by whom bequeathed in memory of R. Langton Douglas to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981.

出版

F.Z. Boccazzi, Pittoni, Venice, 1979, pp. 138, 148 and 156, no. 96, fig. 376.

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Pittoni experimented with a similar arrangement of the Holy Family in his great altarpiece The Madonna and Child with Saints Peter, Paul and Pius V in the Chiesa di Santa Corona in Vicenza, painted in 1723, but here he imbues a more modest composition with a new and greater sense of grace, affection and naturalism. Boccazzi dates the Metropolitan Museum painting to circa 1735, and it is very comparable in format and composition to another Holy Family (private collection; Boccazzi no. 285) that Boccazzi also dates to the mid-1730s.

Pittoni's painting belonged to R. Langton Douglas (1864-1951), the British-born art critic, dealer and distinguished authority on Sienese painting who, following his tenure as Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, settled in New York City in 1940 and worked for the legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen. His widow, Jean Langton Douglas, bequeathed the present painting to the Metropolitan Museum in 1981 in memory of her late husband.