Collection Spiritual Betrothal of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the Infant Jesus

Spiritual Betrothal of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the Infant Jesus

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Spiritual Betrothal of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the Infant Jesus

ca. 17th century

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Italian

Italian

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 36 × 51 inches (91.4 × 129.5 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

Gift of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII

83.2

This work is in the public domain.

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Provenance

March 24, 1845, auction of the late Cardinal Fesch (Palais Ricci, Rome), lot 909-1300

acquired by George, commissaire-Expert du Musée Royal du Louvre (Rome)

His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (Vatican City)

1883-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Detroit Art Loan Exhibition. 1883, p. 82, no. 910.

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 5-6.

Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. DMA. Detroit, 1910, p. 9, no. 1, (repr.).

Burroughs, C. Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1920, p. 28, no. 18.

Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. DIA. Detroit, 1944, p. 67, no. 578 [as North Italian, 17th century].

Fredericksen, B. and Zeri, F. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings. Cambridge, 1972, p. 227 [as 17th C. Italian].

Keyes, G. S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." In the catalogue for TEFAF Maastricht 2005, pp. 10-15, esp. p. 11.

Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 8, 11 (note 2).

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Italian, Spiritual Betrothal of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the Infant Jesus, ca. 17th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, 83.2.

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