Holy Family

ca. 1515-1520 (Renaissance)

45.7 cm 57.2 cm 0.7 cm

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The Christ Child, about the age of a toddler, holds onto his mother’s dress and offers her a bushel of pears, a symbol of his enduring love for humanity. At the left is Saint Joseph, Mary's husband and Christ's earthly father, with his hands joined in prayer. The figures are p...

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Convent of the Magdalen, Pesaro [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [according to 1881 Massarenti catalogue]; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 135; 1897 catalogue: no. 189, as Girolamo Marchesi]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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