Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Pontormo)

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Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1522–1523) by Pontormo

Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is a c.1522-1523 oil on panel painting by Pontormo, produced early in his career. It now hangs in the Hermitage Museum, [1] which acquired it with countess E. I. Mordvinova's collection. A preparatory drawing survives in the Uffizi's Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe. [2]

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References

  1. "Art works". Hermitage Museum.
  2. (in Italian) Elisabetta Marchetti Letta, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Scala, Firenze 1994. ISBN   88-8117-028-0