The Holy Family with St. Anne
Artist
Peter Paul Rubens and Workshop
Flemish, 1577–1640
Datecirca 1630–1635
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions68 3/4 x 56 in. (174.6 x 142.2 cm)
Frame: 85 1/4 x 72 1/8 in. (216.5 x 183.2 cm)
Frame: 85 1/4 x 72 1/8 in. (216.5 x 183.2 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.107
On View
On view“Catalogue of pictures by old masters, the properties of Major J.M.E. Askew, removed from Ladykirk, Norham, Northumberland [and others]” (auction catalogue) (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 17, 1946), lot 84, as The Holy Family with Saint Anne by Rubens.
Erik Larsen, P. P. Rubens (Antwerp: De Sikkel, 1952), cat. no. 101, illus. 161, no. 128a.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: NCMA, 1956), no. 129, illus. and detail (b-w).
Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), 53, 58, illus. (color) 52, (b-w) 58.
John Jacob, "The Liverpool Rubens and other related Pictures," The Liverpool Bulletin 9, Walker Art Gallery Number (1960-61), 14, 17, illus. 13, fig. 5.
P. P. Rubens: Paintings-Oilsketches-Drawings (exhibition catalogue) (Antwerp: Royal Museum of Fine Arts, 1977), cat. no. 89.
Thierry Appelboom, M.D. et al, "Rubens and the Question of Antiquity of Rheumatoid Arthritis," reprinted from JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 245, no. 5 (February 6, 1981), 483-86, illus. and detail 484, fig. 3.
Maryland State Medical Journal 31, no. 5 (May 1982), illus. (color) cover.
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), illus. (color) 11.
James. S. Goodwin, Jan Dequeker, ed. "The History of Arthritis as Reflected in Art," Mediguide 3, no. 4 (1984), illus. 6.
Michael Jaffé, Catalogo Completo Rubens, transl. by Germano Mullazzani (Milan: Rizzoli, 1989), illus. 335, fig. 1098. (On p. 389, listed are illus. #'s 493, 991, 1098, 1128, 1129, 1382.)
Margarita A. Russell, Paintings and Textiles of the Bass Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection (Miami Beach, Fla: Bass Museum of Art, 1990), 72.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 116.
Läkartidningen 89, no. 5 (January 29, 1992), 305-06, illus. and detail (color) 305, fig. 6.
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), 364, illus. fig. 428.
Angel M. Navarro, La Pintura Holandesa y Flamenca (Siglos XVI al XVII) en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, 1994), 67-70, illus. 69
Susan Koslow, Frans Snyders: The Noble Estate, Seventeenth-Century Still-Life and Animal Painting in the Southern Netherlands (Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1995), 242, illus. (color) 241.
Janice T. Grana, ed., The Upper Room, Daily Devotional Guide, illus. (color) front cover (note: no credit given to NCMA).
Pamphlet, for Japanese pharmaceutical company, Tokyo, Soudasha (1994?), illus. (color) 4.
Marion Wheeler, Her Face: Images of the Virgin Mary in Art (Cobb, CA: First Glance Books, 1998), illus. 151.
Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for The Holy Family with St. Anne, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 87, 92, illus. (color) 92.
Annamária Gosztola, "Under the Spell of Great Masters," Ex Fumo Lucem: Baroque Studies in Honour of Klára Garas (Budapest: Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, 1999), 72, illus. 71.
Ildikó Ember and Zsuzsa Urbach, eds., Old Master's Gallery: Summary Catalogue, Vol. 2: Early Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish Paintings (Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 2000), 146.
Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (July/August 2002), illus. (color) 22 and inside back cover.
Angel M. Navarro, Flemish and Dutch Masters (From the XVIth to the XVIIIth Century) At the National Museum of Fine Arts (Buenos Aires: Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2001), mentioned 70.
Peinture flamande et hollandaise: XV-XVIII siècle (Strasbourg: Editions des Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, 2009), 140, illus. (color).
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 61, illus. (color) 294.
Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for The Holy Family with St. Anne, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 194, illus. (color) 195.
"Auction Old Master Paintings" (catalogue) (Vienna: Palais Dorotheum, April 9 2014), lot 528, as The Holy Family with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, illus. (color) includedExhibition HistoryLondon, England, Burlington House, 1893, no. 74.
Antwerp, Belgium, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, “P. P. Rubens: Paintings-Oilsketches-Drawings,” June 29-September 30, 1977, cat. no. 89.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
Object Rights Statement
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) makes images of its collection available online to support research and scholarship and to inform and educate the public. Certain works of art, as well as the photographs of those works of art, may be protected by copyright, trademark, or related interests not owned by the NCMA. The responsibility for ascertaining whether any such rights exist and for obtaining all other necessary permissions remains with the applicant. To request images and/or permissions from the NCMA, please complete our online request form.
There are no works to discover for this record.