Code: H150
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This fabulous and well executed painting depicts the Holy Family: Child Jesus the Virgin Mary and elderly Saint Joseph, with the Infant Saint John the Baptist.
Painted by an unknown but highly talented early 19th Century Italian artist, and follower of the classical 17th Century French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin (1594 - 1665)
Scene from the life of the infant Christ were extremely popular in 16 and 17-century Italian painting. The subject of the Holy Family with Infant Saint John the Baptist can refer to several paintings in public collections around the world: Beccafumi, Correggio, Murillo, Parmigianino, Rosso Fiorentino, and Nicolas Poussin.
