Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist. Italian School. 18th Century.

Descriptio Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 85 x 62 cm unframed, 98 x 75 cm framed. The oval composition depicts an intimate scene of the Holy Family with the infant Saint John, set against a twilight architectural landscape. The Virgin tenderly holds the Christ Child, symbolically offered by Saint John, in an interplay of gentle gestures and glances. Saint Anne serenely observes from the background, completing the devotional triangle. The treatment of the faces, the volume of the bodies, and the flowing drapery reveal a delicate execution inspired by the late Baroque period. The scene is rendered in a warm, earthy palette, with accents of blue, pink, and ochre that reinforce the spirituality and harmony of the scene. The architecture glimpsed in the background, along with the atmosphere filtered by the twilight light, places the work within an 18th-century Italian tradition, where restrained emotion and balanced composition define a profoundly religious and human aesthetic ideal.

Estimation:2.000€

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