About the Artwork
The Holy Family and St. John
between 1477 and 1549
Sodoma
1477-1549
Italian
Unknown
Oil on wood panel
Unframed: 40 1/4 × 32 1/2 inches (102.2 × 82.6 cm) Framed: 51 3/4 × 44 1/4 × 3 inches (131.4 × 112.4 × 7.6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mrs. George Munroe Endicott
59.444
Public Domain
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Provenance
until 1928, private collection (France)
May 21-22, 1928, sold by Galerie Petit, no. 35 [for 28,000 francs]
by April 1930, until after 1933, Howard Young Gallery
Mr. Charles B. Bohn [1880-1953] and Mrs. Elizabeth Bohn [Elizabeth G. Lamont b.1885] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
by inheritance to their daughter, Mrs. George Munroe Endicott [Edna Nellie Bohn, 1908-2000] (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Galerie Georges Petit. Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens. Paris, 1928, pp. 34-35 (ill.).
Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1933, cat. 68.
Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. New York, 1933, pl. 487 (ill.).
Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 102.
Richardson, Edgar Preston, ed. Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 3rd ed. Detroit, 1966, p. 87 (ill.).
Berenson, Bernard. Italian pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, vol. 1 (text). London, 1968, p. 405.
Frederickson, Burton and Frederico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 189.
Wolk, Linda. “Sodoma's Holy Family with St. John.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 61, no. 4 (1984): pp. 23-33 (figs. 1-3).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Sodoma, The Holy Family and St. John, between 1477 and 1549, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. George Munroe Endicott, 59.444.
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