The Holy Family

Date1641

Object PlaceFrance, Western Europe, Europe

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationsPaintings

Dimensions21 7/8 inches × 28 inches (55.56 × 71.12 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson

Object number54.2

DescriptionAt left, seated Madonna holding Child on her lap, three- legged table with bowl before her. Pink curtain divides them from seated man with eyes closed at window, right background. View of trees and mountain through window.

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Locations

Storage - Long-term Demo Museum (Hanover Square), East Wing, European Painting Storage, Screen 1, B

ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of: Giovanni Stefano Roccatagliata (died 1652), Rome, 1642; Possibly bequeathed to Cassiano dal Pozzi; Jacques-Laure Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1722-1785), called "Bailli de Breteuil," Rome, by 1760-61 (possibly sold Dec 1760 at Lebrun with other paintings belonging to Breteuil; See Lugt 1128); Robert Ansell, London, 1770 (sale, Christie's, London, 15 Feb 1771, no 72; bt. Lord Melbourne); Peniston Lamb, first Viscount Melbourne (1779-1829), Melbourne House, Berbyshire, 1771; William Lamb, second Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848); Frederick James Lamb, brother of William lamb, third Viscount Melbourne (1782-1853); estates passed to his sister Emily Mary, formerly wife of the fifth Earl Cowper and then Lady Palmerson (1787-1869); Palmer- ston property passed to W.F. Cowper-Temple, later Baron Mount Temple, second son of Lady Palmerston by Earl Cowper, and then property to her grandson Evelyn Ashley (1836-1907); Captain Langton Douglas (sold, 17 Nov 1924, to Whitcomb); Edgar B. Whitcomb, Detroit (died 1953), 1924; By descent to Mrs. Harriet Whitcomb Wilkinson, Detroit, 1953; The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1954