id: 130392 accession number: 1953.156 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.156 updated: 2023-12-07 10:18:42.801000 The Return of the Holy Family to Nazareth, c. 1627. Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665). Oil on canvas; framed: 159.5 x 124 x 14.5 cm (62 13/16 x 48 13/16 x 5 11/16 in.); unframed: 134 x 99 cm (52 3/4 x 39 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.156 title: The Return of the Holy Family to Nazareth title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1627 creation date earliest: 1622 creation date latest: 1632 current location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - French 17th Century type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594–1665) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 159.5 x 124 x 14.5 cm (62 13/16 x 48 13/16 x 5 11/16 in.); Unframed: 134 x 99 cm (52 3/4 x 39 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Venetian Tradition opening date: 1956-11-08T05:00:00 The Venetian Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957). title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: The Arts of Man opening date: 1962-10-04T04:00:00 The Arts of Man. The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (organizer) (October 4-November 15, 1962). title: Poussin opening date: 1995-02-16T05:00:00 Poussin. Dulwich Picture Gallery (organizer) (February 16-April 30, 1995). title: The First Roman Years of Nicolas Poussin opening date: 1998-11-26T00:00:00 The First Roman Years of Nicolas Poussin. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (November 26, 1998-March 1, 1999). title: The Triumph of French Painting: Seventeenth Century Masterpieces from the Museums of FRAME [FRAME] opening date: 2003-10-11T00:00:00 The Triumph of French Painting: Seventeenth Century Masterpieces from the Museums of FRAME [FRAME]. Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (organizer) (October 11, 2003-January 4, 2004); Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (January 25-April 11, 2004); Meadows Museum (April 30-July 25, 2004). title: Object Lessons: France in the Golden Age opening date: 2012-02-14T00:00:00 Object Lessons: France in the Golden Age. Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (organizer) (February 14-June 3, 2012). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Art Institute of Chicago, July 15-August 31, 1954: "Masterpieces of Religious Painting in collaboration with the World Council of Churches," cat. no. 33, repr. p. 32. * CMA, 1956: "The Venetian Tradition," cat. no. 30, repr. (Catalogue by Henry S Francis). * Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art January 4-February 2, 1959: "Paintings and Drawings by Nicolas Poussin in American Museums," cat. p. 26, repr. fig. 14 (color) Minneapolis Isnitute of Art, February 11-March 10, 1959. * Paris 1960, no. 52. * Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, October 4-November 15, 1962: "The Arts of Man," cat. no. 58, repr. p. 49. * Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, September 24-November 27, 1988: Poussin. The Early Years in Rome," * Rome, Italy; Comune di Roma-Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 11/26/98 - 3/1/99 "The first Roman Years of Nicolas Poussin" (I primi anni romani.) Exhibition catalog no. 15, p. 66. * Portland Art Museum, OR (10/11/2003 - 1/4/2004), Birmingham Museum of Art (1/25/2004 - 4/11/2004) and Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas (5/2/2004 - 7/25/2004): "The Triumph of French Painting: 17th Century Masterpieces from the Museums of FRAME", p. 94-95. --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1953- footnotes: citations: (Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1953 footnotes: citations: Frederick Mont and Newhouse Galleries, New York, NY, sold to Rosenberg and Stiebel)1 date: 1952-1953 footnotes: *
1Mont was chosen by the Prince of Liechtenstein as sole agent for the sale of works from his collection. 
citations: Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna, and later, Vaduz1 date: By 1733-1952 footnotes: *
1The Liechtenstein seal in the lower right hand corner of the painting bears the date 1733 – the year the painting was first recorded in the Liechtenstein collection. 


* citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Sept. 19, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, June 26, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: page number: url: page number: url: page number: url: Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Sept. 19, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, June 26, 2013, in CMA curatorial file page number: url: Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Sept. 19, 2013, in CMA curatorial file.

page number: url: Gerald Stiebel, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, June 26, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url:
Dr. Reinhold Baumstark, letter to Ann Tzeutschler Lurie, Nov. 28, 1977, in CMA curatorial file.

page number: url: Thuillier, Jacques. L'opera completa di Poussin. Milano: Rizzoli, 1974. page number: url: Wright, Christopher. Poussin, Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1985. page number: url: Falke, J. Katalog der Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Bildergallerie im Gartenpalais der Rossau zu Wien. Wien: Miethke & Wawra, 1873. page number: url: Descrizzione completa di tutto cio che ritrovasi nella galleria di pittura e scultura di sua altezza Giuseppe Wenceslao ... principe regnante della casa di Lichtenstein. 1767. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 478 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n88 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 116 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n140 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 121-124; Reproduced: p. 122 url: Albl, Stefan, and Pietro Testa. Pietro Testa: Maler in Rom und Lucca (1612-1650). 2021. page number: Mentioned: p. 253 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.156/1953.156_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.156/1953.156_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.156/1953.156_full.tif