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Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Jacques Blanchard (French, 1600–1638)
c. 1628
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 94 × 122.4 cm (37 × 48 3/16 in.); Framed: 106.7 × 135.3 cm (42 × 53 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Sam Salz
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
Like other ambitious painters of his day, Jacques Blanchard began his career with years of travel and study in Italy before establishing himself in Paris. Blanchard's itinerary took him to Rome, Venice, and Turin, before his return to Paris via Lyon. This tender painting of the Christ Child approached by his cousin, Saint John the Baptist, probably belongs to these years of travel. Blanchard drew on works by Titian and Veronese that he had seen in Venice for the dynamic poses and warm light, but he evidently still felt some uncertainty in the placement of the figures in space.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
