id:			160143
accession number:	1998.10
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.10
updated:		2025-02-09 05:26:51.609000

The Holy Family, 1776. Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, 1734–1802). Oil on canvas; framed: 105.5 x 87 x 6 cm (41 9/16 x 34 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 87 x 68.5 cm (34 1/4 x 26 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1998.10

title:				The Holy Family
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creation date:			1776
creation date earliest:		1776
creation date latest:		1776
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Italy, 18th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 18th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, 1734–1802)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 105.5 x 87 x 6 cm (41 9/16 x 34 1/4 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 87 x 68.5 cm (34 1/4 x 26 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '"Bella pittura: The Art of the Gandolfi", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June 18-September 6, 1993 and the Arkansas Center, Little.', 'opening_date': '1993-06-18T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Sold: Sotheby's Monaco, 16 and 17 June 1989, lot #322.
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	London private collection (Giovanni Sarti, Paris, 1998), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Painting by 18th-century Italian Master Gaetano Gandolfi among Works Added to CMA Collection,” March 24, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4109

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 38 no. 10, December 1998
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 2
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-10/page/2

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