The Birth of the Virgin

between 1755 and 1757

Antonio Gonzalez Velazquez Spanish, 1723 - 1794

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European, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Birth of the Virgin

Artwork Date between 1755 and 1757

Artist Antonio Gonzalez Velazquez

Life Dates 1723 - 1794

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Spanish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 36 × 55 3/4 inches (91.4 × 141.6 cm) Framed: 45 1/2 × 64 1/8 × 3 inches (115.6 × 162.9 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase in memory of James and Lynelle Holden

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 73.100

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Provenance

Enzo Constanttini (Rome, Italy);
May 9, 1972, sold by Duran (Madrid, Spain) lot 54; [as Corrado Giaquinto.]
private collection (Madrid, Spain);
1973 (Jan Dik, Rome, Italy);
1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Sánchez Cantón, F.J. Bocetos y Estudios para Pinturas y Esculturas (Siǵlos XVI–XIX). Madrid, 1949, p. 20, no. 50.

Sánchez Cantón, F.J. "La exposición de bocetos en la Sociedad Española de Amigos del Arte." Arte Español (1950): no.1, (pl. III) [as by Corrado Giaquinto].

Sales cat., Sala Durán. Madrid, May 9, 1972, no. 54 (ill.) [as by Corrado Giaquinto].

Cummings, Frederick J. "Curatorial and Museum Department Reports: Department of European Art." Bulletin of the DIA 52, no. 1 (1973): pp. 13-17; pp. 14-15 (ill.), 17 [as by Corrado Giaquinto].

Pérez Sánchez, A.E. "Corrado Giaquinto's Birth of the Virgin." Bulletin of the DIA 54, no. 1 (1975): pp. 33-42 (fig. 1) [as by Corrado Giaquinto].

L'Art européen à la Cour d'Espagne au XVIII siécle. Exh. cat. Paris, no. 113 [as possibly by Antonio González Velázquez].

Bottineau, Y. L'Art Baroque. Paris, 1986, pp. 398, 485, (fig. 233) [as by Corrado Giaquinto].

Manuel Arnaiz, J. Antonio González Velázquez. Pintor de Cámara de su Majestad 1723-1792. Madrid, 1999, p. 92, cat. 26 [as by Antonio González Velázquez].

The Soul of Spain. Exh. cat., Albuquerque Museum. Albuquerque, 2005, pp. 260-261, cat. 83 (ill.).

Corrado Giaquinto y España. Exh. cat., Palacio Real. Madrid, 2006, p. 81.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Antonio Gonzalez Velazquez, The Birth of the Virgin, between 1755 and 1757, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase in memory of James and Lynelle Holden, 73.100.