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| Title | The Visitation, after Palma Vecchio | |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum | |
| Artist | Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) After Palma, Jacopo, il vecchio (Italian painter, ca. 1479-1528) |
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| Date Earliest | about 1651 | |
| Date Latest | 1660 | |
| Description | In the centre ground Mary, dressed in red and blue, embraces Elizabeth, dressed in purple. From the right, wearing red and green, comes Zaccharias, and from the left Joseph in dark green and gold. A small dog completes the foreground staffage but there are other figures within the background buildings of a town. This copy by Teniers of Palma Vecchio's The Visitation (now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) was engraved by P. van Lisebetten for Teniers' Theatrum Pictorium, 1660, p. 194. | |
| Current Accession Number | 27 | |
| Former Accession Number | 46 (1855) | |
| Subject | religion | |
| Measurements | 31.0 x 52.3 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on panel | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. | |
| Provenance | John Smith, dealer, London, 12 May 1846, bought by Archibald McLellan, £55. | |
| Publications | Waagen, G., Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, III, 1854, p. 289; McLellan Catalogue, Glasgow, 1855, p. 5, no. 46; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, p. 134, no. 27, II, p. 25. | |
| Rights Owner | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) | |
| Author | Robert Wenley | |