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Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Jacques Blanchard (French, 1600–1638)LinkedCulture matchlcp-ae85936c504a
- Date
- c. 1628
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 16494
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Like other ambitious painters of his day, Jacques Blanchard began his career with years of travel and study in Italy before establishing himself in Paris. Blanchard's itinerary took him to Rome, Venice, and Turin, before his return to Paris via Lyon. This tender painting of the Christ Child approached by his cousin, Saint John the Baptist, probably belongs to these years of travel. Blanchard drew on works by Titian and Veronese that he had seen in Venice for the dynamic poses and warm light, but he evidently still felt some uncertainty in the placement of the figures in space.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Sam Salz
- Provenance
- Rosa Maria Brender de Berenbau (of Montvideo, Uruquay), Paris, by 1955/56 [according to a letter of 20 March 1981 from Charles Sterling to Susan Wise in curatorial file]; sold to Sam Salz, New York, probably by 1961 [see Sterling 1961 and letter cited above]; given to the Art Institute, 1963.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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