The Holy Family

ca. 1516

Dosso Dossi Italian, ca. 1479-1542

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About the Artwork

Title The Holy Family

Artwork Date ca. 1516

Artist Dosso Dossi

Life Dates ca. 1479-1542

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. Italian

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

Medium Oil on wood panel

Dimensions Unframed: 20 5/8 × 16 3/4 inches (52.4 × 42.5 cm) Framed: 25 1/2 × 22 × 2 inches (64.8 × 55.9 × 5.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. E. Raymond Field

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. 30.412

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Provenance

ca. 1929, collection of Baron Alexander Vay (Hungary);
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Field (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1930-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Detroit Acquires Two Old Masters," Art News, vol. 29 (December 6, 1930): p. 8; (repr.) p. 5.

Valentiner, W.R. "Three Ferrarese Paintings," Bulletin of the DIA 12, no. 6 (March 1931): pp. 66-70, esp. pp. 66-68, (cover repr.).

Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 173 [as a "Nativity"].

Berenson, B. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 150.

Longhi, R. Ampliamenti nell'officina ferrarese. Florence, 1940. Reprint, R. Longhi, Officina ferrarese, Florence, 1956, p. 159.

Richardson, E. P., ed. DIA Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 39, no. 508.

Christmas Exhibition. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Gallery. Grand Rapids, December 5- January 6, 1957.

Arslan, E. "Una Natività di Dosso Dossi," Commentari, vol. 8. October-December 1957, pp. 257-61, esp. p. 259.

Trenti, M. Antonelli, Arte antica e moderna, vol. 28. 1964, p. 413.

Puppi, L. Dosso Dossi [I maestri di colore, vol. 78]. Milan, 1965, n.p.

Dreyer, P. "Die Entwicklung des jungen Dosso," Pantheon, vol. 23 (1965): pp. 22-30, esp. p. 22.

Mezzetti, A. Il Dosso e Battista ferraresi. Milan, 1965, pp. 17, 77-78.

Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 35 [dates picture to ca. 1510-20].

Gibbons, F. Dosso and Battista Dossi: court painters at Ferrara. Princeton, 1968, pp. 220, 231, no. 88.

Berenson, B. Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places. In Central Italian and North Italian schools, vol. 1. London, 1968, p. 111.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, 1972, p. 67.

Humfrey, P. and M. Lucco. Dosso Dossi: court painter in Renaissance Ferrara. Exh. cat., Pinacoteca nazionale, Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum. Ferrara, New York, Los Angeles, 1998, p. 104, (fig. 4) [cited in conjunction with cat. 7, Virgin and Child ("La Zingarella"; dates DIA picture to ca. 1515-16)].

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