id:			169330
accession number:	2011.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.2
updated:		2023-04-22 12:24:41.407000

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

title:				Madonna and Child in Glory
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creation date:			c. 1605–1617
creation date earliest:		1600
creation date latest:		1622
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creditline:			Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture:	England, 17th century
technique:	gouache and watercolor, heightened with gum arabic, with shell gold framing lines, on vellum, mounted on paper, vellum, and wood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - British before 1800
type:		Portrait Miniature
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Isaac Oliver (French, c. 1565–1617)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 27.5 x 20.5 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed with monogram in gold, lower right: "IO"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives
	opening date:   2013-11-10T00:00:00
	<i>Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Possibly commissioned by Queen Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), possibly by inheritance to her godson, Henry, 15th Earl of Arundel
	date: c.1602  
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	Possibly Henry, 15th Earl of Arundel, by gift to his son Henry Howard
	date: c. 1619 
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	Henry Howard, 1628-1684, and his wife Lady Anne Mary Howard, 1631 - 1662
	date: 1653    
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	Private collection (sold, Christie's, London, July 21, 1944, lot 22, to A. Rofe
	date: -1944   
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	A. Rofe (sold, Sotheby's, November 18, 1959, lot 16, through David Carritt to Max Aitken)
	date: 1944    
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	Max Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook, upon his death, transferred to the Beaverbrook Foundation 
	date: 1959    
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	Beaverbrook Foundation (unsold, Sotheby's, New York, January 26, 2011, lot 517)
	date: 1964    
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2011    
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	Possibly painted for Queen Anne of Denmark (1574-1619);
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	possibly by descent to her godson Henry, 15th Earl of Arundel,
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	by whom given to his son Henry Howard (1628-1684) and recorded in the collection of his wife Lady Anne Mary Howard (1631-1662) by 1653;
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	sale, London, Christie's, 21 July 1944, lot 22;
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	A. Rofe,
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	his sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 November 1959, lot 16, to David Carritt on behalf of Max Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964);
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	thence by descent to the present owner
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fun fact:


digital 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.

wall description:

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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
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	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
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	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
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IMAGES

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