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Artist
Paolo Veronese
Title
Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth, the Infant Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Catherine
Date
1565-70
Culture
Italian
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
103.8 x 158.1 cm (40-7/8 x 62-1/4 in.)
Accession Number
1956:001
Credit Line
Paolo Veronese, Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth, the Infant Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Catherine, 1565-70, oil on canvas, 103.8 x 158.1 cm (40-7/8 x 62-1/4 in.), Putnam Foundation, Timken Museum of Art.
Full view of Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth, the Infant Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Catherine
Description
Born and trained in the city of Verona, hence his nickname, Paolo Veronese gained his fame as a painter of frescoes and easel paintings while
living in Venice. In this work, a sumptuously attired Saint Catherine is shown at right with the Holy Family. Saint Elizabeth, the mother of Christ's cousing Saint John the Baptist, sits on the left, rolling swaddling clothes. Veronese arranges the figures in a stately flow of interconnecting forms and renders them using a rich play of light and a perfect balance of warm and cool colors.

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Provenance

Possibly mentioned by Ridolfi as in the possession of the heirs of Veronese; According to Cicogna (1824–53), the work belonged to Abbott Celotti; Bondon, Paris, until 1831, his sale, Paris, June 8, 1831 (Lugt 12689), no. 10 Quantock; Norman Clark Neill, Cowes, as of 1925; Mrs. H. F. Buxton, London; Acquired by the Putnam Foundation, 1956

Exhibited

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1925-26, Winter Exhibition Catalogue, no. 61; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, extended loan, 1956-65.

Literature

C. Ridolfi, Le maraviglie dell'arte ovvero le vite degl'illustri pittori venetie della stato . . . (1648), ed. D. von Hadeln, 2 vols. (Berlin, 1914 and 1924), 1:344; E. Cicogna, Delle iscrizioni veneziane, 6 vols. (Venice, 1824-53), 4:235; Percy H. Osmond, Paolo Veronese (London, 1927), p. 32; "Country wide Loans from California," Art News 55 (November 1956): 33, ill.; Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance:
Venetian School, 2 vols. (London, 1957), 1:135; Remigio Marini, L'opera completa del Veronese, introduction by Guido Piovene (Milan, 1968), p. 135, no. 392;Agnes Mongan and Elizabeth Mongan, European Paintings in the Timken Art Gallery {San Diego, 1969), pp. 36
-37,111, no.10, ill.; Pierre-Jean Mariette, Ecoles d'Italie: Notices biographiques et catalogues des oeuvres reproduites par la gravure, Les Grands Peintres, no. 1 (Paris, 1969), p. 302; Burton Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings
in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 40, 348, 632; Paolo Ticozzi, "Le incisioni da Paolo Veronese nel museo Correr' Bolletino dei Musei Civici Veneziani 20, nos. 3-4 (1975): 46, no. 30; Terisio Pignatti, Veronese, 2 vols. (Venice, 1976), 1:125-26, no. 129, and 2: fig. 373; Paolo Ticozzi, Paolo Veronese e i suoi incisori, exh. cat., Museo Correr (Venice, 1977), p. 32, under no. 88; Martin E.
Petersen, "Three Centuries of European Paintings, 1300-16oo," Apollo :115 (June 1982): 441, fig. 6; Timken Art Gallery: European and American Works of Art in the Putnam Foundation Collection (San Diego, 1.983), pp. 84-85, 124-25, no. 32, ill.; Terisio Pignatti and Filippo Pedrocco, Veronese: Catalogo completo dei dipinti, I gigli dell'arte, no.18 {Florence, 1991), p. 334, no.68A

Note

This record has been reviewed by Timken Museum of Art staff and may be incomplete or contain errors. Our records are constantly revised. Inquiries about provenance are advised to contact the Director of Curatorial Affairs: curator@timkenmuseum.org.