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Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth
c. 1640
(Spanish, 1598–1664)
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.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1960.117
Location: 212 Baroque Painting and Sculpture
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Zurbarán, also a still-life painter, tilts the tabletop to emphasize the symbolic books and fruit.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.- 1960-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio1960(François Heim, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)Ater 1821-1960Various private collections in France1821(Probably Walterstorff sale, Laneuville, Paris, March 26-27, 1821, no. 65, sold to Laneuville)1Until 1920Probably the Count of Walterstorff [1755-1820]1
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London, United Kingdom: Trafalgar Galleries, 1979. Mentioned: p. 64; Reproduced: p. 67, fig. 1Hindley, Geoffrey. World Art Treasures. New York, New York: Mayflower Books, 1979. Reproduced: p. 182Fromme, Babbette Brandt. Curators' Choice: An Introduction to the Art Museums of the U.S. New York, New York: Crown Publishers, 1981. Reproduced: p. 115The 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. Reproduced: p. 514; Mentioned: p. 515-516Veca, Alberto. Simposio: cerimonie e apparati : [mostra]. Bergamo, Italy: Galleria Lorenzelli, 1982. Mentioned: p. 157; Reproduced: p. 156,fig. 121Baticle, Jeannine. Zurbarán. New York, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. Mentioned: p. 258-262; Reproduced: p. 259Decoin, Didier, and Marie-Hélène About. L'enfant de Nazareth. Paris, France: Nouvelle cité, 1989. Reproduced: p. 122Mühlberger, Richard. 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Les figures du Christ dans l'art, l'histoire et la littérature: colloque Université d'Artois, 3 et 4 mars 2000. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2001. Reproduced: p. 192-193, pl. 5Harris, Ann Sutherland. Seventeenth-Century Art & Architecture. London, United Kingdom: Laurence King, 2005. Reproduced: p. 213, fig. 3.19Klibansky, Raymond, and Jean Clair. Mélancolie, génie et folie en occident: en hommage à Raymond Klibansky, 1905-2005 : Galeries nationales du grand palais, Paris, 10 octobre 2005-16 janvier 2006 ; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 17 février-7 mai 2006. Paris, France: Gallimard, 2005. Reproduced: p. 250, no. 129Iacono, Margaret. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, New York: The Frick Collection, 2006. Reproduced: p. 250, no. 129Black, Charlene Villaseñor. Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006. Reproduced: p, 105, fig. 65Quignard, Pascal. 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