About the Artwork
Spiritual Betrothal of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the Infant Jesus
ca. 17th century
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Italian
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 36 × 51 inches (91.4 × 129.5 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
83.2
Public Domain
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Provenance
March 24, 1845, auction of the late Cardinal Fesch (Palais Ricci, Rome), lot 909-1300;acquired by George, commissaire-Expert du Musée Royal du Louvre (Rome);
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII (Vatican City);
1883-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.
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Detroit Art Loan Exhibition. 1883, p. 82, no. 910.
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 5-6.
Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. DMA. Detroit, 1910, p. 9, no. 1 (repr.).
Burroughs, C. Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 28, no. 18.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 67, no. 578 [as North Italian, 17th century].
Fredericksen, B., and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 227 [as 17th C. Italian].
Keyes, G. S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." In Catalogue for TEFAF Maastricht. 2005, pp. 10-15; p. 11.
Bissell, R. W., A. Derstine and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 8, 11 (note 2).
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Italian, Spiritual Betrothal of Saint Catherine of Alexandria with the Infant Jesus, ca. 17th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, 83.2.
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