Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint

Painting by Titian

Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint

Artist	Titian
Year	c. 1515–1520
Medium	Oil on canvas, from panel
Dimensions	62.7 cm × 93 cm (24.7 in × 37 in)
Location	Scottish National Gallery
Accession	NGL 061.46

The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint, also called the Virgin with Saint John the Baptist, adored by a Donor, is a religious painting by Titian, dated to between 1515 and 1520, which is currently on loan to the Scottish National Gallery.^[1]^[2]

Analysis

The picture has been called Palmesque, and Crowe and Cavalcaselle give it in their list of pictures ascribed to that painter.^[2] Morelli already acknowledged it as a genuine work by Titian in the late nineteenth century.^[2] According to Gronau, the picture is also very Giorgionesque, and therefore probably painted about 1510 to 1512, at about the same date as the Three Ages of Life.^[2] The Scottish National Gallery puts the date slightly later, about 1515 to 1520.^[1] It was originally a panel painting, but has been transferred to canvas.^[1]

A replica, with Saint Catherine and Saint Jerome, by a pupil of Titian, is mentioned by Gronau in the Glasgow Corporation Galleries (no. 484) in 1904.^[2]

Provenance

Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, Westminster.^[2]^[3]
Scottish National Gallery (Bridgewater Collection Loan).^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d National Galleries Scotland.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Gronau 1904, p. 281.
^ Ricketts 1910, p. 177.

Sources

Gronau, Georg (1904). Titian. London: Duckworth and Co; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 281.
Ricketts, Charles (1910). Titian. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. pp. 177, plate xx.
"The Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint". National Galleries Scotland. Retrieved 7 March 2023.

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Portraits

Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter (1503–1506)
A Man with a Quilted Sleeve (c. 1509)
La Schiavona (1510–1512)
A Man
- New York, c. 1512)
- (Indianapolis, c. 1515
Shepherd with a Flute (c. 1510–1515)
A Man in a Red Cap (c. 1510–1515)
A Sick Man (1515)
Jacopo Sannazaro (c. 1514–1518)
Gian Giacomo Bartolotti da Parma (c. 1515)
A Knight of Malta (c. 1515)
Vincenzo Mosti (c. 1520)
Young Woman in a Black Dress (c. 1520)
Man with a Glove (c. 1520)
Laura Dianti (c. 1520–1525)
Alfonso I d'Este (1523)
A Lady (c. 1525–1565)
Federico II Gonzaga (c. 1529)
Giacomo di Andrea Dolfin (c. 1531–1532)
Alfonso d'Avalos with a Page (1533)
Charles V with a Dog (1533)
Ippolito de' Medici (1532–1533)
Giacomo Doria (1533–1535)
Charles V (1533–1535)
Isabella d'Este (1534–1536)
La Bella (1536)
Girl in a Fur (1536–1538)
Count Antonio Porcia and Brugnera (c. 1535–1540)
A Man with a Falcon (c. 1537)
Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere (1538)
Francesco Maria della Rovere (1538)
Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1539–1540)
Benedetto Varchi (c. 1540)
Pope Sixtus IV (c. 1540)
A Young Englishman (1540–1545)
Ranuccio Farnese (c. 1542)
Clarissa Strozzi (1542)
The Vendramin Family (1543–1547)
Pietro Aretino (1545)
Lavinia Vecellio (c. 1545)
Pope Paul III (1545–1546)
Pope Paul III Wearing a Camauro (1545–1546)
Pope Paul III and His Grandsons (1545–1546)
Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (c. 1545–1546)
Pier Luigi Farnese (1546)
Andrea Gritti (c. 1546–1550)
Charles V (on horseback) (1548)
Charles V (seated) (1548)
Isabella of Portugal (1548)
John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (c. 1550–1551)
A General (c. 1550)
Philip II in Armour (1551)
Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo (1552)
Philip II (1554)
Woman Holding an Apple (c. 1550–1555)
Christina of Denmark (1555–1556)
Girl with a Platter of Fruit (c. 1555–1558)
Fabrizio Salvaresio (1558)
An Unknown Lady (c. 1550–1560 – also attributed to Titian's workshop)
Jacopo Strada (1567–1568)
A Lady in White (c. 1561)

Self portraits

Self-Portrait (1546–1547)
Self-Portrait (c. 1560)

Secular

Detroit Trio (c. 1500 – also attributed to Giorgione and others)
The Birth of Adonis (c. 1506–1508)
The Legend of Polydoros (c. 1506–1508)
Justice (c. 1508)
Pastoral Concert (c. 1509 – also attributed to Giorgione)
Dresden Venus (with Giorgione, c. 1510)
The Lovers (c. 1510 – attributed)
The Three Ages of Man (c. 1512–1514)
Sacred and Profane Love (c. 1514)
The Feast of the Gods (1514)
Venus and Cupid (1510–1515)
Lucretia and her Husband (1515)
The Bravo (c. 1515)
Flora (c. 1515)
Vanity (c. 1515)
Violante (c. 1515)
Woman with a Mirror (c. 1515)
The Worship of Venus (1518–19)
Venus Anadyomene (c. 1520)
Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–1523)
The Bacchanal of the Andrians (1523–1526)
Allegory of Marriage (c. 1530–1535)
Eleven Caesars (1536–1540)
Venus of Urbino (1538)
Alfonso d'Avalos Addressing his Troops (1540)
Venus and Musician (several versions, 1540s–1570s)
Tityus (1549)
Sisyphus (1549)
Danaë (several versions; 1543–1565)
Venus and Adonis (several versions)
Mars, Venus and Amor (c. 1550)
Pardo Venus (1551)
Venus with a Mirror (1555)
Perseus and Andromeda (1554–1556)
Diana and Actaeon (1556–1559)
Diana and Callisto (1556–1559)
The Death of Actaeon (c. 1559–1575)
The Rape of Europa (c. 1560–1562)
The Concert (c. 1543–1564)
Venus Blindfolding Cupid (c. 1565)
Allegory of Prudence (c. 1565–1570)
Nymph and Shepherd (c. 1570)
Tarquin and Lucretia (comp. 1571)
Flaying of Marsyas (1570–1576)

Religious

Christ Carrying the Cross (c. 1505 – also attributed to Giorgione)
Bache Madonna (c. 1508)
Flight into Egypt (c. 1508)
Lochis Madonna (1508–1510)
St. Mark Enthroned (c. 1510)
The Gypsy Madonna (c. 1510)
Holy Family with a Shepherd (c. 1510)
Christ and the Adulteress
- Glasgow, c. 1510)
- (Vienna, c. 1520
Madonna and Child with St Anthony of Padua and St Roch (c. 1511)
The Resurrected Christ (c. 1511–12)
Bapitsm of Christ (c. 1512)
Virgin and Child with Saint Stephen, Saint Jerome and Saint Maurice (c. 1510–1525)
Miracle of the Jealous Husband (1511)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1512)
Balbi Holy Conversation (c. 1513)
Noli me tangere (c. 1514)
The Archangel Raphael and Tobias (c. 1512–1514; c. 1540–1545)
Salome
- Rome, c. 1515)
- (Madrid, c. 1550)
- (Private, c. 1570
Madonna of the Cherries (1515)
The Tribute Money (c. 1516)
Assumption of the Virgin (1516–1518)
The Virgin and Child with Saint George and Saint Dorothy (1516–1518)
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint (c. 1515–1520)
Madonna and Child with Four Saints (c. 1516–1520)
Pesaro Madonna (1519–1526)
Madonna and Child with Three Saints (c. 1519)
Gozzi Altarpiece (1520)
Mary with Child and Saints Stephen, Jerome and Mauritius (c. 1520)
Malchiostro Annunciation (c. 1520)
The Entombment of Christ (c. 1520)
Averoldi Polyptych (1520–1522)
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (1525)
The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr (1529)
Aldobrandini Madonna (1530)
Madonna of the Rabbit (1530)
Madonna of the Roses (c. 1530)
Penitent Magdalene (1531)
Saint Jerome in Penitence (1531)
Pilgrims at Emmaus (c. 1533–1534)
Supper at Emmaus (c. 1534; c. 1545)
The Presentation of the Virgin at the Temple (1534–1538)
Saint John the Baptist (1540)
Sciarra Madonna (c. 1540)
The Crowning with Thorns (1542–43)
Ecce Homo
- Vienna, 1543
David and Goliath (c. 1542–1544)
Abraham and Isaac (c. 1543–1544)
Cain and Abel (c. 1543–1545)
Serravalle Altarpiece (1548)
Castello Roganzuolo Altarpiece (1549)
The Fall of Man (c. 1550)
Penitent Magdalene (c. 1550)
Saint Jerome in Penitence (1552)
The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (c. 1548–1559)
La Gloria (1554)
Christ Appearing to his Mother after his Resurrection (1554)
Mater Dolorosa (c. 1555)
Saint Jerome in Penitence (1575)
Crucifixion (1558)
The Entombment (1559)
St Margaret and the Dragon (c. 1559)
Annunciation (1559–1564)
Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1560)
Penitent Magdalene (1565)
Saint Dominic (c. 1565)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes (c. 1570)
Religion saved by Spain (1572–1575)
Saint Sebastian (c. 1575)
The Crowning with Thorns (1576)
Pietà (1576)