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)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.107

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ProvenancePossibly commissioned for the Convent of the Barefoot Nuns (Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales), Madrid; created Antwerp, Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1630–1635. Hon. Sarah Askew Robertson (1837–1929), Ladykirk, Norham on Tweed, Scotland, by 1893; to her son William Haggerstone Askew (b.1868); to his son John Majoribanks Eskdale Askew (1910–1996), Ladykirk; [Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 17, 1946, no. 84, as The Holy Family with Saint Anne by Rubens]; [David M. Koetser Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1952.

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