Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and Saints Peter and Anthony, anonymous, c. 1515

Title(s)

Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist and Saints Peter and Anthony

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-3014

Description

In een landschap zit Maria op de grond met het Christuskind op schoot. Het kind reikt naar de kleine Johannes de Doper die op een schaap zit. Links de heiligen Petrus en Antonius de Heremiet.

Artist

• painter: anonymous
• painter: Benedetto Diana (rejected attribution)

Place

Venice

Dating

c. 1515

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

• panel
• oil paint (paint)

Measurements

height 69 cm × width 85.5 cm × thickness 0.9 cm

What

• Holy Family with John the Baptist (as child)
• the hermit Antony Abbot (Antonius Abbas) of Egypt, also called the Great; possible attributes: bell, book, T-shaped staff, flames, pig

Credit line

• Gift of F. Mannheimer, Amsterdam

Acquisition

gift Jan-1924

Copyright

Public domain

• All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue : first supplement: 1976-91, p. 98
• The Early Venetian Paintings in Holland, Johan Rudolph Justus van Asperen de Boer, Hendrik Willem van Os
• All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 193