- Title:
- The Visitation
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- The Virgin Mary, dressed in blue, visits her older cousin Elizabeth, who is pregnant with Saint John the Baptist. This episode is described in the New Testament and happens immediately after the angel visits Mary to announce her own miraculous conception of Jesus Christ.In the Bible, the women rejoice at their pregnancies, but here they look serious and concerned. Joseph, Mary's husband, is not included in biblical descriptions of the Visitation, but he often appears in paintings. Here he stands behind Mary. The elderly man descending the steps is Zacharias, Elizabeth's husband.This is probably the work of a north Italian artist or a French painter working in Italy. The artist adopted a classical painting style: the bodies are large and solid like antique sculpture. The architecture is simple with little detail apart from the door and an archway revealing a glimpse of the sky and landscape beyond.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1944-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1944
- Date - latest:
- 1944
- Associated concept:
- religious imagery
- Associated concept:
- Virgin Mary
- Associated concept:
- Visitation of the Virgin to Saint Elizabeth
- Associated concept:
- St Elizabeth
- Associated concept:
- Gospel of St Luke
- Credit line:
- Bought, using the Martin Colnaghi Fund, 1944
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/63/26/824/mid_N-5448-00-000013.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 113.60
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 218.00
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- canvas
- Material:
- oil on canvas
- Object name:
- Picture; French (?)
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1625-49
- Object production date:
- about 1630
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1630
- Date - latest:
- 1630
- Object production person:
- French or North Italian
- Object production person:
- French
- Object production place:
- France
- Other number:
- NG5448
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0EDP-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG5448
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-02NX-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng35448
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- baroque
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Seventeenth Century French Paintings
- Reference details:
- 185-7
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 125-6
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 104-5
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School
- Reference details:
- 51
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 238
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: 1938-1954
- Reference details:
- 94
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The neglected National Gallery : an exhibition of paintings from the lower floor /exhibition organised and booklet written by Michael Levey.
- Reference details:
- Cat. no. 24
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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