The Holy Family in the Carpenter Shop, mid to late 17th century

  • School of Seville, Spanish, 1600-1700

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 22 7/8 × 26 3/8 inches (58.1 × 67 cm)
  • 31 1/2 × 35 1/8 × 2 3/4 inches (80 × 89.2 × 7 cm)

Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb

53.363

(Dr. Siegrfied Aram, New York, New York, USA)

by July 1935, purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Boer, N.V. Kunsthandel P. de. Catalogue de Tableaux Anciens. Exposition de nouvelles acquisitions. Exh. cat. Amsterdam, Springtime - Summer 1937, no. 22 [partial version of DIA's painting showing the Virgin. A.L. Mayer adscribes the work to Murillo and dates it ca. 1650 - 1654]. Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts. DIA. Detroit, 1954, p. 113 [as school of Seville, XVII century]. The Christmas Story in Art. Exh.[?] cat., Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines, 1959. Angulo Iñiguez, D. Murillo, su vida, su arte, su obra. Madrid, 1981 vol. 2, p. 414, no. 1.189 [as school of Madrid in the tradition of Alonso Cano or as school of Granada].

School of Seville, The Holy Family in the Carpenter Shop, mid to late 17th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 53.363.