Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint

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Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint
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Artist Titian
Yearc.1515–1520
Medium Oil on canvas, from panel
Dimensions62.7 cm× 93 cm(24.7 in× 37 in)
Location Scottish National Gallery
AccessionNGL 061.46

The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint, also called the Virgin with Saint John the Baptist, adored by a Donor, is a religious painting by Titian, dated to between 1515 and 1520, which is currently on loan to the Scottish National Gallery. [1] [2]

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Analysis

The picture has been called Palmesque, and Crowe and Cavalcaselle give it in their list of pictures ascribed to that painter. [2] Morelli already acknowledged it as a genuine work by Titian in the late nineteenth century. [2] According to Gronau, the picture is also very Giorgionesque, and therefore probably painted about 1510 to 1512, at about the same date as the Three Ages of Life. [2] The Scottish National Gallery puts the date slightly later, about 1515 to 1520. [1] It was originally a panel painting, but has been transferred to canvas. [1]

A replica, with Saint Catherine and Saint Jerome, by a pupil of Titian, is mentioned by Gronau in the Glasgow Corporation Galleries (no. 484) in 1904. [2]

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Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint Titian, Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Male Saint, Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, 1517-1520..jpg
Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 National Galleries Scotland.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gronau 1904, p. 281.
  3. Ricketts 1910, p. 177.

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