Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1628/29

Jacques Blanchard
French, 1600-1638

Like other ambitious painters of his day, Jacques Blanchard began his career with years of travel and study in Italy before establishing himself in Paris. Blanchard’s itinerary took him to Rome, Venice, and Turin, before his return to Paris via Lyon. This tender painting of the Christ Child approached by his cousin, Saint John the Baptist, probably belongs to these years of travel. Blanchard drew on works by Titian and Veronese that he had seen in Venice for the dynamic poses and warm light, but he evidently still felt some uncertainty in the placement of the figures in space.

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jacques Blanchard
Title: Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1628–1629
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 94 × 122.4 cm (37 × 48 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Sam Salz
Reference Number: 1963.43
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Charles Sterling, “Les peintres Jean et Jacques Blanchard,” Art de France 1 (1961), pp. 86-87, no. 22 (ill.).
“Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, January - March, 1964,” Art Quarterly 27 (1964), pp. 205, 209 (ill.).
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), pp. 258 (ill.), 277.
Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century (London, 1985), p. 142.
Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide (New York, 1991), vol. 1, p. 231, vol. 2, pp. 61, 566.
Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 5-8, ill.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections, 1982, cat. 9; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Jacques Blanchard 1600-1638, March 5-June 15, 1998, cat. 13.

Rosa Maria Brender de Berenbau (of Montvideo, Uruquay), Paris, by 1955/56 [according to a letter of 20 March 1981 from Charles Sterling to Susan Wise in curatorial file]; sold to Sam Salz, New York, probably by 1961 [see Sterling 1961 and letter cited above]; given to the Art Institute, 1963.

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