Harvard Art Museums > 1930.189: Holy Family with Infant Saint John Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Holy Family with Infant Saint John (Bartolomé Esteban Murillo) , 1930.189,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/231845. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1930.189 People Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish (Seville 1618 - 1682 Seville) Title Holy Family with Infant Saint John Classification Paintings Work Type painting Date c. 1670 Places Creation Place: Europe, Spain Culture Spanish Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/231845 Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 120 x 110.5 cm (47 1/4 x 43 1/2 in.) framed: 159 x 145.5 cm (62 5/8 x 57 5/16 in.) Provenance Recorded Ownership History Thomas Walker (by 1748), London, by descent; to Stephen Skynner (1693-1764), his nephew, by descent; to his daughter, Emma Harvey (1731-1767), Rolls Park, Chigwell, by descent; to William Harvey, 1763 (1754-1779), by descent [1]; to Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey (1758-1830), Rolls Park, Chigwell, his brother, by descent; to Lady Louisa Nugent (1758-1841), his wife, by descent; to Emma Eustace (nee Harvey) (1797-1865), his daughter, sold; to Richard Foster, Esq., Clewer Manor, Berks, c. 1856, sold [through Christie’s, London, July 13, 1895, lot 68]; to [Agnew, London]. Alfred Beit (1853-1906), London, by 1904, by descent (?); to Otto Beit (1865-1930) (his brother), London. [2] Maurice Kann, Paris, 1912 (until at least 1913). [3] Mrs. Ward Jackson, sold [through Christie’s, May 19, 1916, lot 107]; to [Amor]. Sir Ernest Cassel (1851-1921), London. [4] Mrs. Herbert (Margot) Asquith, countess of Oxford and Asquith (?). [Duveen Brothers, New York, 1925] sold; to Nettie G. Naumburg, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1930. Notes [1] William Harvey was a minor when he inherited. His uncle, General Edward Harvey acted as his Guardian. [2] The 2010 Murillo Catalogue Raisonne lists Otto Beit as the owner of the painting, but it was published as Alfred Beit’s property in 1904. Alfred never married and had no children. [3] Kann's ownership is documented in 1914 in "Murillo: des Meisters Gemälde" published in 1913. [4] Cassel’s ownership is derived from the Duveen Brothers Subdivision of Stock at May 31, 1925. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg Accession Year 1930 Object Number 1930.189 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, John Murray (London, 1857), p. 288 Charles B. Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo: A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue..., Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington (London, 1883), p. 179, no. 153 Catalogue of Important Pictures by Old Masters and of the Early School, including Masterpieces of Murillo, Jacob Ruysdael and Weenix; from the Clewer Manor Collection, auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, July 13, 1895), pp. 16-17, lot 68, repr. p. 16 Wilhelm von Bode, The Art Collection of Mr. Alfred Beit at his Residence 26 Park Lane London, Imberg & Lefson (Berlin, 1904), pp. 6-7, repr. August L. Mayer, Murillo: des Meisters Gemälde in 287 Abbildungen, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (Stuttgart, 1913), p. 64, repr. Catalogue of Pictures by Old Masters, auct. cat. (London, May 19, 1916), p. 22, lot no. 107, repr. facing title page Duveen Brothers, Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America: A Catalogue Raisonné with Three Hundred Illustrations of Paintings by the Great Masters, which have passed through the House of Duveen, William Bradford Press (New York, 1941), cat. no. 233, repr. Sydney J. Freedberg, "Lorenzo Lotto to Nicolas Poussin", Apollo (May 1978), vol. 107, no. 195, pp. 389-397, p. 397, repr. p. 396 as fig. 15 Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 186, p. 163, repr. Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 122, 373, repr. b/w cat. no. 825 Suzanne L. Stratton, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 2002), no. 25, pp. 168-169, repr. Enrique Valdivieso, Murillo: Catálogo Razonado de Pinturas, Ediciones El Viso (Madrid, 2010), p. 188-189, detail rep. p. 189, p. 448 as cat. no. 267, repr. p. 488 A. Cassandra Albinson, ed., Madame de Pompadour: Painted Pink, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (Cambridge, 2022), repr. as fig. 1 on p. 20 Exhibition History Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 03/10/2002 - 06/16/2002; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 07/14/2002 - 10/06/2002 Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011 Related Articles An Uncommon Commons: Harvard Art Museums’ Naumburg Room July 29, 2013 Related Works Straus.5646 Artist of original: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo X-radiograph(s) of "Madonna, Child and St. John" Photographs Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu