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Orazio Gentileschi

The Holy Family with the young Saint John the Baptist

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Orazio Gentileschi

Pisa 1563–1639 London

The Holy Family with the young Saint John the Baptist 


inscribed on the reverse in a 17th-century hand: n 256. Di. mano. Di./ Oratio. Gentileschi.

oil on copper

43.1 x 32.3 cm.; 17 x 12¾ in. 

John Pitt, MP (c. 1706–1787);

By descent to his son, William Morton Pitt, MP (1754–1836), London and Dorset;

His sale, London, Christie’s, 1 June 1811, lot 100 (as Geutileschi [sic]), for £6.–6s., to Spackman;

Charles Spackman (1748–1822);

Anonymous sale, Detroit, DuMouchelles, 15 December 2023, lot 1000 (as Italian School, in the manner of Orazio Gentileschi);

Where acquired by the present owner.