The Holy Family and St. John

between 1477 and 1549

Sodoma Italian, 1477-1549

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title The Holy Family and St. John

Artwork Date between 1477 and 1549

Artist Sodoma

Life Dates 1477-1549

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 40 1/4 × 32 1/2 inches (102.2 × 82.6 cm) Framed: 51 3/4 × 44 1/4 × 3 inches (131.4 × 112.4 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mrs. George Munroe Endicott

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 59.444

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Provenance

until 1928, private collection (France)

May 21-22, 1928, sold by Galerie Petit, no. 35 [for 28,000 francs]

by April 1930, until after 1933, Howard Young Gallery

Mr. Charles B. Bohn [1880-1953] and Mrs. Elizabeth Bohn [Elizabeth G. Lamont b.1885] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

by inheritance to their daughter, Mrs. George Munroe Endicott [Edna Nellie Bohn, 1908-2000] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Galerie Georges Petit. Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens. Paris, 1928, pp. 34-35 (ill.).

Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1933, cat. 68.

Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York, 1933, pl. 487 (ill.).

Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 102.

Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 87 (ill.).

Berenson, Bernard. Italian pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1 (text). London, 1968, p. 405.

Frederickson, Burton and Frederico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 189.

Wolk, Linda. “Sodoma's Holy Family with St. John.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 61, no. 4 (1984): pp. 23-33 (figs. 1-3).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Sodoma, The Holy Family and St. John, between 1477 and 1549, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. George Munroe Endicott, 59.444.