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The Virgin and Child with Sts John the Baptist, Francis and James the Great

Ermano Stroiffi (1616–1693)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The Virgin and Child with Sts John the Baptist, Francis and James the Great

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A preparatory oil sketch for an altarpiece of 1652 in S. Maria dei Derelitti (the Ospedaletto), Venice, this painting represents the Virgin of Mount Carmel with St John the Baptist in the foreground, St Francis in his distinctive habit to the right, together with the pilgrim saint, James the Great. The altarpiece, with considerable variations in the figures, is in a different architectural surround from that envisaged here; it was commissioned from Stroiffi, a pupil of Bernardo Strozzi, by the heirs of Giovanni Battista Gariboldi (d.1651), who is buried nearby. A variant oil sketch, with the same architectural design, is in the Fondazione Longhi, Florence.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Title

The Virgin and Child with Sts John the Baptist, Francis and James the Great

Date

c. 1652

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 106 x W 67.5 cm

Accession number

WA1963.63

Acquisition method

Purchased with the assistance of the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, 1963

Work type

Painting

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Ermano Stroiffi

1616–1693

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