The Virgin and Child with Saint John and His Parents
Artist
Jacob Jordaens
Flemish, 1593–1678
Datecirca 1617–1618
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions46 x 56 3/4 in. (116.8 x 144.1 cm)
Frame: 58 x 68 3/4 in. (147.3 x 174.6 cm)
Frame: 58 x 68 3/4 in. (147.3 x 174.6 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina, and gift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest) and David M. Koetser
Object number52.9.101
On View
On view[1] This is probably William Young Ottley (1771-1836). No evidence that the Jordaens was sold in one of Ottley's many sales has yet been found.Published ReferencesPossibly "A catalogue of a capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish and Dutch pictures" (auction catalogue) (London: Christies, November 23, 1787), lot 93, as The holy family with Elizabeth and St. John, by Jordaens.
George Redford, Art Sales: A History of Sales of Pictures and other Works of Art (London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1888), vol. 2, 304 (1787 sale).
“Catalogue of Pictures by Old Masters... the properties of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Lonsdale, O.B.E., The Viscount Gage” (auction catalogue) (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, March 7, 1952), lot 127, as The Holy Family, with the Infant Saint John and Saint Anne.
Leo van Puyvelde, Jordaens (Paris - Brussels: Elsevier, 1953), 92-93 (as Sainte Familie).
Betty Chamberlain, "North Carolina: First state-initiated collection: How to get and spend a million dollars for art," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), 92, illus. 52.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 117, illus. (b-w).
I. R. Foster, "Christmas Art in American Museums," International Journal of Religious Education (December 1961), 8-9, illus. 8.
Michael Jaffé, Jacob Jordaens, 1593-1678 (exhibition catalogue) (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1968), cat. no. 9, illus.
Jean Sutherland Boggs, "Jordaens and Canada," Connoisseur 169, no. 683 (December 1968), 256-57, illus. 257 (as Madonna and Child Visited by the Child St. John and His Parents].
Julius S. Held, "Jordaens at Ottawa," The Burlington Magazine 111, no. 794 (May 1969), 271.
R[oger] -A[dolf] d'. Hulst, "Jordaens," (exhibition review) The Art Bulletin 51, no. 4 (December 1969), 381 (note 9).
Gregory Martin, The Flemish School circa 1600-circa 1900 (London: The National Gallery, 1970), cat. no. 3215 (as The Virgin and Child with SS. Zacharias, Elizabeth and John the Baptist].
Justus Müller Hofstede, "Abraham Janssen zur Problematik des flämisches Caravaggismus," Jahrbuch des Berliner Museen 13, (1971), no. 255.
Robert F. Phifer Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1973), 38, illus. (b-w) 39.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), xi, illus. (b-w) 133.
"Fashions in Wicker," Colonial Homes (July-August 1985), 48, illus.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 113.
Guy C. Bauman, and Walter A. Liedtke, selected by, Flemish Paintings in America: A Survey of Early Netherlandish and Flemish Paintings in the Public Collections of North America, Arnout Balis, Carl Van de Velde and Hans Vlieghe, eds., Flandria Extra Muros series (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1992), 345, illus. fig. 297.
Jeremy Adamson, American Wicker Woven Furniture from 1850-1930 (Washington, DC: The Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1993), illus. 12.
Christopher Brown, "Antwerp Jacob Jordaens," The Burlington Magazine (August 1993), 584.
R[oger] -A[dolf] d'Hulst, et al, Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) (exhibition catalogue) ([Brussels?]: Gemeentekrediet for Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Amsterdam, 1993), cat. no. AII, illus. (color) 71, detail 72.
Ekkehard Mai and Hans Vlieghe, eds., Von Bruegel bis Rubens: Das Goldene Jahrhundert der flämischen Malerei (Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum; Cologne: Verlag Locher, 1993), 337.
Dennis P. Weller, et al, Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), cat. no. 27, illus. (color).
Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for The Holy Family with St. John and His Parents, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 91, illus. (color); detail (color) 86.
René Lew, "La représentation de la voix: l'esquisse dans le tableau," in La Part de l'Oeil no. 19, Dossier: La représentation et l'objet (2003-2004), illus. 130.
Walter Leidtke, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, "An early work by Jacob Jordaens rediscovered," The Burlington Magazine (February 2006), vol. 146, issue 1235, illus. 107, 108
Children in the Mauritshuis (Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2007), illus. (color) 11.
Dennis P. Weller, “Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Paintings in Raleigh,” Codart (Winter 2009), mentioned 13.
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 55, illus. (color) 264.
Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for The Holy Family with St. John and His Parents, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 186, illus. (color) 187.Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy of Art, "Exhibition of 17th Century Art in Europe," 1938, no. 39.
Winston-Salem, NC, Reynolda House, "Christmas Exhibition," November 30, 1966-January 3, 1967.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "Jacob Jordaens, 1593-1678," November 29, 1968-January 5, 1969, cat. no. 9, illus.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Robert F. Phifer Collection," March 31-May 13, 1973, 38, illus. (b-w) 39.
Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11-April 13, 1975.
Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten," Jacob Jordaens, 1593-1678," March 27-June 27, 1993, cat. no. AII, illus. (color) 71, detail 72.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers," September 27- December 13, 1998; Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Art Museum, January 29-April 18, 1999; Dayton, OH, The Dayton Art Institute, May 8-July 18, 1999, cat. no. 27, illus. (color).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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