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A Vision of the Holy Family near Verona

A Vision of the Holy Family near Verona

attributed to (Flemish, 1540–1596)
Date1581
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 35 1/2 × 46 in. (90.2 × 116.8 cm)
Frame: 43 7/16 × 53 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (110.3 × 135.9 × 6.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object number1961.83
Status
Not on view
More Information
This canvas was painted as a trompe l'oeil (to trick the eye) featuring a scene of the Holy Family, which is simultaneously covered by, and revealed through an illusionistic peeling canvas. The other picture we see is an evening view of Verona, complete with shepherds and a resting traveler in the foreground. Adding to the trompe l'oeil effect is the painted cartellino in the bottom center of the composition, which gives the date of the work, and identifies the landscape as a view of Verona.
Exhibition History
The Samuel H. Kress Study Collection: A Gift of Ten Italian Paintings
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 16, 1961 - 1962-03 )
More Than Meets the Eye: The Art of Trompe l'Oeil
  • Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (December 7, 1985 - February 22, 1986 )
  • Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (March 21, 1986 - April 27, 1986 )
The Age of the Marvelous
  • Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (September 21, 1991 - November 24, 1991 )
  • North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (January 25, 1992 - March 22, 1992 )
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (May 24, 1992 - August 23, 1992 )
  • High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (October 6, 1992 - January 3, 1993 )
Seven Hundred Years of Western Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2001 - June 2, 2002 )
Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (October 13, 2002 - March 2, 2003 )
Visual Deception
  • Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (April 11, 2009 - June 7, 2009 )
  • The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo (June 13, 2009 - August 16, 2009 )
  • Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan (August 25, 2009 - November 3, 2009 )
Carambolages
  • Réunion des museés nationaux - Grand Palais, Paris (March 2, 2016 - July 4, 2016 )
Collections
  • European
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