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The Holy Family with Four Saints and a Female Donor
Inscriptions
Inscribed in gold pigment: [SVM VE]R[A] LVX [MVNDI] EGO (on the Christ Child's halo)
Provenance
Acquired either by James Hughes Smith-Barry (1746?–1801) or by his eldest son John Smith-Barry (b. 1793), both of Marbury Hall, near Northwich, Cheshire, and Fota Island, County Cork, Ireland; by descent to Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry (d. 1925), first and last Lord Barrymore; by descent to his daughter the Honorable Mrs. Dorothy Elizabeth Bell of Fota Island, County Cork, Ireland; sold Sotheby’s, London, June 21, 1933, no. 44 (ill.), as Boltraffio. Sold Sotheby’s, London, March 23, 1960, no. 116 (ill.), as Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, to H. M. Calmann [according to annotated sale catalogue, Ryerson Library, the Art Institute of Chicago]. H. M. Calmann, London, 1960–63; sold by Calmann to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.
Exhibition history
Manchester, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 92, as Beltraffio [sic]. London, Royal Academy of Arts, Works by the Old Masters, 1879, no. 175, as Boltraffio.
Publications
A Catalogue of Paintings, Statues, Busts, etc. at Marbury Hall, the Seat of John Smith Barry, Esq., in the County of Chester (London, 1814), p. 9, no. 225; 2nd ed. (Warrington, 1819), p. 9, no. 225. Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain (London, 1857), p. 409. Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of More than Forty Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, MSS. (London, 1957), vol. 4 (supplemental), p. 409. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, “I falsi artistici,” Critica d’arte 8 (1961), pp. 16–17, fig. 16. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 251, ill. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 136, 571. Anchise Tempestini, “Antonio da Bologna: Uno o due?” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 25 (1981), pp. 344–52, fig. 6. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 206–09, ill. Maria Teresa Fiorio, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio: un pittore milanese nel lume di Leonardo (Milan, 2000), p. 182, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Antonio Rimpatta (Italian, documented from 1509–died 1531/32)
- Date
- c. 1510
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 125.3 × 120 cm (49 3/8 × 47 1/4 in.); Framed: 147.4 × 141.7 × 10.2 cm (58 × 55 3/4 × 4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- 16th Century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Clyde M. Carr Fund
- Accession no.
- 1963.209
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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