The Visitation

Date1640

Modern PlaceNetherlands, Western Europe, Europe

MediumOil on oak panel

ClassificationsPaintings

Dimensions18 7/8 × 22 1/4 inches (47.94 × 56.52 cm)

Credit LineCity of Detroit Purchase

Object number27.200

DescriptionTwo women greet each other in center of middleground. Elizabeth, the older woman at left, wraps her arms around Mary's shoulders. A black servant girl stands to the right of Mary and holds her cloak. At left a young boy helps Zacharias, the bearded old man, down the steps. At right a man leads a mule. In the left foreground a peacock, perched before a vine covered wall, watches over her young. A view of a distant city is in right background.

On View

On view

Locations

Exhibition Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Level 3, European Paintings, Gallery 6

ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of: The King of Sardinia; Vienna, Collection Prince Eugene of Savoy; London, Collection The Dukes of Westminster; Halton Manor, England, Collection Alfred de Rothschild;