The Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist, 1708

  • Willem van Mieris, Dutch, 1662-1747

Oil on oak panel

  • Unframed: 24 × 19 1/4 inches (61 × 48.9 cm)
  • 30 3/8 × 25 1/2 × 2 5/8 inches (77.2 × 64.8 × 6.7 cm)

Museum Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund; gift of Mr. and Mrs. John N. Lord and Edsel B. Ford Fund by exchange

2004.13

On View

  • Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Signed and dated, lower left, on crate: Willem van Mieris | anno 1708

the artist, Willem van Mieris [1662-1747]

commissioned by Pieter de la Court van der Voort (Leiden, Netherlands)

by inheritance to his son, Allard de la Court van der Voort (Leiden, Netherlands)

September 8, 1766, auction de la Court van der Voort-Backer, lot 33

purchased by Mossel [for fl. 850]

private collection (France)

December 5, 2001, sold by (PIASA, Paris, France) lot 74

2002, (Rafael Valls Ltd., London, England)

2004, (Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc., New York, New York, USA)

2004-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Willem van Mieris, The Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist, 1708, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Joseph M. de Grimme Memorial Fund, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, et al., 2004.13.