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The Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist c.1630-99
Oil on canvas | 73.5 x 59.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 403985
After Guercino (Cento 1591-Bologna 1666)
The Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist c.1630-99
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The Madonna, her head tilted to the left, clasps the Child, whose right hand is held and about to be kissed by the infant St John. The picture is clearly an old copy of an early composition by Guercino. The original is in the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas, and other copies are in the Galleria Pallavincini, Rome, and at Christ Church, Oxford.
The painting appears in Pyne's illustrated Royal Residences of 1819, hanging in the King's Dressing Room at Windsor Castle (RCIN 922105).Provenance
Possibly the painting of exactly this subject and size attributed to Schedone recorded by Van der Doort in the Bear Gallery Whitehall in 1639 (no 15); certainly listed in the King's private apartments at Hampton Court in 1700 (no 1); in the Closet below stairs at Hampton Court throughout the 18th Century aparently hung as a pair with RCIN 402611; both paintings moved to Windsor in 1805 and recorded there in the King's Closet (also called Dressing Room) in 1813 and 1819
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Oil on canvas
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73.5 x 59.7 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
84.7 x 71.8 x 3.2 cm (frame, external)
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