id: 136217 accession number: 1960.117 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.117 updated: 2023-04-23 11:15:55.259000 Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth, c. 1640. Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598–1664). Oil on canvas; framed: 201 x 256 x 10 cm (79 1/8 x 100 13/16 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 165 x 218.2 cm (64 15/16 x 85 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1960.117 title: Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1640 creation date earliest: 1635 creation date latest: 1645 current location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- culture: Spain, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Spanish before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish, 1598–1664) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 201 x 256 x 10 cm (79 1/8 x 100 13/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 165 x 218.2 cm (64 15/16 x 85 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: Genie et folie en Occident: Une histoire de la mélancolie opening date: 2005-09-22T00:00:00 Genie et folie en Occident: Une histoire de la mélancolie. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (September 22, 2005-January 2, 2006); Neue Nationalgalerie (February 17-May 7, 2006). title: Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-11-08T00:00:00 Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (November 8, 2006-January 28, 2007). title: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-03-29T00:00:00 Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1960- footnotes: citations: (François Heim, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1960 footnotes: citations: Various private collections in France date: Ater 1821-1960 footnotes: citations: (Probably Walterstorff sale, Laneuville, Paris, March 26-27, 1821, no. 65, sold to Laneuville)1 date: 1821 footnotes: *
1The Zurbarán likely failed to sell and was effectively bought in by Jean-Louis Laneuville, a painter who also held auctions and compiled sale catalogues, including this one.  This scenario is more likely than that which proposes that the painting was purchased by collector Ferdinand Laneuville, whose posthumous sale in 1866 at Hôtel Drouot included no works by Zurbarán. 
citations: Probably the Count of Walterstorff [1755-1820]1 date: Until 1920 footnotes: *
1The Count of Walterstorff was the Minister of Denmark to the French court.  The 1987 Zurbarán catalogue raisonné by Jeannine Baticle notes that “it is not unlikely” that the Cleveland picture is the one that appears in the Walterstorff sale due to the matching dimensions and description.  However, the circumstances of his acquisition of the painting are unknown.
citations: --- fun fact: Zurbarán, also a still-life painter, tilts the tabletop to emphasize the symbolic books and fruit. digital description: wall description: Stories of Christ’s childhood and adolescence became increasingly popular during the Counter-Reformation because they were easily understood by a broad public. Rather than taking a story from the Bible, Zurbarán appears to have invented this subject, in which Jesus pricks himself on a crown of thorns he is weaving, foretelling his later torment at the Crucifixion. Despite the grand scale and monumental figures, the work has remarkable intimacy and quietness, emphasizing such details as the Virgin’s tears. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lurie, Ann Tzeutchler. "Two Devotional Paintings by Sassoferrato and Carlo Dolci." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV (1968): 224-227. page number: Reproduced: p. 227, fig. 10 url: Delenda, Odile, and Almudena Ros de Barbero. Francisco de Zurbarán 1598-1664. Madrid: Fundación Arte Hispánico, 2009. page number: url: Iacono, Margaret. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: The Frick Collection, 2006 page number: url: Baticle, Jeannine. Zurbarán. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987 page number: url: Gállego, Julián, and José Gudiol. Zurbarán, 1598-1664. New York: Rizzoli, 1977. page number: url: Delenda, Odile, and Almudena Ros de Barbero. Francisco de Zurbarán 1598-1664. Madrid: Fundación Arte Hispánico, 2009 page number: url: Iacono, Margaret. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: The Frick Collection, 2006 page number: url: Baticle, Jeannine. Zurbarán. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. page number: url: M. Laneuville, M. Moreau, M. Lacoste, and Coquille. Tableaux du meilleur choix. 1821. page number: url: François Heim, letter to Henry S. Francis, July 5, 1960, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Iacono, Margaret. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: The Frick Collection, 2006. page number: url: Baticle, Jeannine. Zurbarán. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. page number: url: M. Laneuville, M. Moreau, M. Lacoste, and Coquille. Tableaux du meilleur choix. 1821. page number: url: François Heim, letter to Henry S. Francis, July 5, 1960, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Valdivieso, Enrique. Bodegones, floreros y trampantojos en la pintura barroca sevillana. Valencina de la Concepción (Sevilla) : Renacimiento, 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 61-69, fig. 76, 83, and 92. url: Guinard, Paul. Zurbarán et les peintres espagnols de la vie monastique. Paris, France: Éditions du Temps, 1960. page number: Mentioned: p. 139; Reproduced: p. 217, fig. 29-30, fig. 67 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” August 12, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0594 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” November 2, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0637 Francis, Henry S. "Francisco de Zubaran: The House of Nazareth." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLIII (1961) 46-50. page number: Reproduced: fig. 1 url: Vaughn, Malcom. "The Connoisseur in America: Cleveland's Zubaran." Connoisseur CXLVIII (1961): 76-77. page number: Reproduced: p. 77 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Art News Press Release,” January 23, 1961, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0683/ Jaffe. Michael. "Cleveland Museum of Art: The Figurative Arts of the West ca. 1400-1800." Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors, LXXVIII (December, 1963): 467. page number: Reproduced: p. 457, fig. 6 url: Exposición Zurbarán en el III centenario de su muerte. Madrid, Spain: Ministerio de Educación Nacional, Direcciŏn General de Bellas Artes, 1965. page number: Reproduced: p. 20 url: Gomez-Moreno, Carmen. Spanish Painting: The Golden Century, New York, New York, 1965. page number: Reproduced: p. 10, no. 39 url: 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. 130 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n154 Causa, Raffaello. Zurbarán. Milano, Italy: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1966. page number: Reproduced: no. 181 url: Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967. page number: Reproduced: no. 152 url: Guinard, Paul. Les Peintrees espagnols. Paris, France: Le Livre de poche, 1967. page number: Reproduced: fig. 122 url: Valiz, Zahir. "A Painter's Technique: Zubaran's The Holy House of Nazareth." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXVIII, no. 10 (October, 1981): 271-283. page number: Reproduced: on cover url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 130 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n154 Frati, Tiziana. L'opera completa di Zurbarán. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1973. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 90-91, vol. 69 url: Brown, Jonathan. Francisco De Zurbarán. New York, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1974. page number: Mentioned: p. 24; Reproduced: p. 80, pl. 11 url: Gállego, Julián, and José Gudiol. Zurbarán, 1598-1664. New York, New York: Rizzoli, 1977. page number: Reproduced: p. 97, no. 247, figs. 257, 259 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 150 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n170 Thuillier, Jacques, Antoine Le Nain, Louis Le Nain, and Mathieu Le Nain. Les frères Le Nain: [exposition organisée par la Réunion des musées nationaux], Grand Palais, 3 octobre 1978-8 janvier 1979 : [catalogue rédigé par Jacques Thuillier]. Paris, France: Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 281 url: Trafalgar Galleries at the Royal Academy, II: [Catalogue]. London, United Kingdom: Trafalgar Galleries, 1979. page number: Mentioned: p. 64; Reproduced: p. 67, fig. 1 url: Hindley, Geoffrey. World Art Treasures. New York, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979. page number: Reproduced: p. 182 url: Fromme, Babbette Brandt. Curators' Choice: An Introduction to the Art Museums of the U.S. New York, New York: Crown Publishers, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 115 url: 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: Reproduced: p. 514; Mentioned: p. 515-516 url: Veca, Alberto. Simposio: cerimonie e apparati : [mostra]. Bergamo, Italy: Galleria Lorenzelli, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 157; Reproduced: p. 156,fig. 121 url: Baticle, Jeannine. Zurbarán. New York, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. page number: Mentioned: p. 258-262; Reproduced: p. 259 url: Decoin, Didier, and Marie-Hélène About. L'enfant de Nazareth. Paris, France: Nouvelle cité, 1989. page number: Reproduced: p. 122 url: Mühlberger, Richard. The Bible in Art: The New Testament. New York, New York: Portland House, 1990. page number: Reproduced: p. 49 url: Berger, John. Keeping a Rendezvous. New York, New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 170-171 url: Brown, Jonathan. Francisco De Zurbarán. New York, New York: H.N. Abrams, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 65, pl. 9 url: Takahashi, Tatsushi. Barokku no miryoku. Kyōto, Japan: Dōhōsha Shuppan, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 34 url: Boggs, Jean Sutherland, Brigitte Léal, and Marie-Laure Bernadac. Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 12-13, fig. 1; P. 62, fig. 11a url: Boone, Danièle. L'Age d'or espagnol. Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Ides et Calendes, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 139 url: Caturla, María Luisa, and Odile Delenda. Francisco de Zurbarán. Paris, France: Wildenstein Institute, 1994. page number: Reproduced: p. 39 url: Grimm, Claus. Stilleben: die italienischen, spanischen und französischen Meister. Stuttgart, Germany: Belser, 1995. page number: Reproduced: p. 35,46 detail: p. 234, no. 144 url: Trinidad de, Antonio. Zurbarán al Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain: El Museu, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 24 url: Navarrete Prieto, Benito. La pintura andaluza del siglo XVII y sus fuentes grabadas. Madrid, Spain: Fundación de Apoyo a la Historia del Arte Hispánico, 1998. page number: Mentioned: p. 101-103: Reproduced: p. 248, fig. 518 url: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (Mexico), Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mexico), Museo de San Carlos, and Saber Ver. Zurbarán. México: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1999. page number: Reproduced: front cover, p. 2-3, 30-31 url: Minor, Vernon Hyde. Baroque & Rococo: Art & Culture. New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 365, no. 10.6 url: Kemp, Martin. The Oxford History of Western Art. 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Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 03, March 2007 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2007-03/page/2 Alcolea, Santiago, and Francisco de Zurbarán. Zurbarán. Barcelona, Spain: Polígrafa, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 66, fig. 52 url: Senzoku, Nobuyuki. Sugu wakaru seiyō kaiga yomitoki 66 no kīwādo. Tōkyō, Japan: Tōkyō Bijutsu, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 123 url: Delenda, Odile, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Almudena Ros de Barbero. Francisco de Zurbarán, 1598-1664: catálogo razonado y crítico. Madrid, Spain: Fundación Arte Hispánico, 2009. page number: Reproduced: p. 546-548, pl. 14-15 url: García Sanz, Ana. El Niño Jesús en el Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales de Madrid. Madrid, Spain: Patrimonio Nacional, 2010. page number: Reproduced: p. 312, fig. 225 url: Nooteboom, Cees. Zurbarán: Selected Paintings 1625-1664. 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Los Angeles, CA: Getty Publications, 2018. page number: Reproduced 7 Mentioned: p. 111 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.117/1960.117_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.117/1960.117_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.117/1960.117_full.tif