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| Title | The Virgin and Child with St John | |
| Collection | Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Attributed to Crayer, Gaspar de (Flemish painter, 1584-1669) Previously attributed to Maratti, Carlo (Italian painter, 1625-1713) |
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| Date Earliest | possibly about 1620 | |
| Date Latest | 1669 | |
| Description | This composition of the Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist may once have formed part of an altarpiece, in which Gaspar de Crayer specialised. Crayer was a follower of Rubens and a contemporary of Anthony van Dyck, and his style is similar to both. The elegant, idealised figures and the sweet-faced Virgin show the influence of Italian painting on the Flemish Baroque. | |
| Current Accession Number | MNEMG 00.1873.74 | |
| Subject | religion (Virgin and Child; St John the Baptist); figure | |
| Measurements | 137.5 x 114.3 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Julius Lucius Brenchley 1873. | |
| Publications | Legouix, S., Foreign Paintings Catalogue, Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Maidstone, 1976, pp. 13-14. | |
| Notes | This picture was formerly attributed to Carlo Maratta on a label at the front of the frame. The alternative proposal of the hand of a northern artist close to Gaspar de Crayer was first put forward by Timothy Clifford, although the picture is almost certainly not by de Crayer himself. The composition is related to a painting of the same subject by van Dyck in the Alte Pinakotheke, Munich (no. 622), particularly in the relationship of the figures to the architecture and to each other. | |
| Rights Owner | © Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery | |
| Author | Dr Rachel Sloan | |