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Source Description
It is difficult to overstate the singularity of this work in 17th-century England. While the image has visual sources in works by Rubens and Federico Barocci, surely known to the cosmopolitan artist (who travelled to Italy, unusually for English artists at this moment), the object is iconographically unique. Oliver places a tender Virgin and Child (itself more closely linked to Catholic instead of Protestant imagery), in a heavenly, visionary setting, and incorporates the medieval iconography of the lactating Virgin with the Salvator Mundi, early Netherlandish in origin, but more commonly an Italian typology by the early seventeenth century.
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Document identity
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169330
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Madonna and Child in Glory
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169330
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object
title
Madonna and Child in Glory
description
It is difficult to overstate the singularity of this work in 17th-century England. While the image has visual sources in works by Rubens and Federico Barocci, surely known to the cosmopolitan artist (who travelled to Italy, unusually for English artists at this moment), the object is iconographically unique. Oliver places a tender Virgin and Child (itself more closely linked to Catholic instead of Protestant imagery), in a heavenly, visionary setting, and incorporates the medieval iconography of the lactating Virgin with the Salvator Mundi, early Netherlandish in origin, but more commonly an Italian typology by the early seventeenth century.
date
c. 1605–1617
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80076455
creators
25153
genreSpecific
Portrait Miniature
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Framed: 27.5 x 20.5 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
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England, 17th century
accession
2011.2
Source extras
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gouache and watercolor, heightened with gum arabic, with shell gold framing lines, on vellum, mounted on paper, vellum, and wood
tombstone
Madonna and Child in Glory, c. 1605–1617. Isaac Oliver (French, c. 1565–1617). Gouache and watercolor, heightened with gum arabic, with shell gold framing lines, on vellum, mounted on paper, vellum, and wood; framed: 27.5 x 20.5 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2011.2
collection
P - British before 1800
inscriptions
inscription
signed with monogram in gold, lower right: "IO"
citations
citation
Mann, C. Griffith, and Amy Bracken Sparks. "Acquisitions 2011." <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 52, no. 2 (March/April 2012): 10-27.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 22
citation
Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl. <em>British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 2013.
page_number
Cat. no. 7, pp. 55-61
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: P. 196
citation
MacLeod, Catharine, et.al. <em>Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver.</em> London: National Portrait Gallery, 2019.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 211, fig. 71
creditline
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-05-29 08:42:21.234000
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169330
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European Painting and Sculpture
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P - British before 1800
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gouache and watercolor, heightened with gum arabic, with shell gold framing lines, on vellum, mounted on paper, vellum, and wood
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male
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