YAPID (Yet Another Painting ID)
Mar. 9th, 2011 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beamjockeyA friend has inherited a house. She found this painting there. I have only one snapshot of it at the moment.
It shows aMadonna mother and child reading a book, while angels look on. We are all wondering what value the painting may have. The family doesn't know the artist or the date of the painting. It is possible that documentation may turn up as she goes through the house. Better photos might also be obtained. There appear to be five large pinkish blobs of damage near the lower center of the painting.
Do you know when this might have been painted, or by whom? Are there clues in the style? Is it likely original, or is it an imitation of a better-known painting?
There must be plenty of people on the Net more knowledgeable about art than I. Probably I am not many handshakes away from some of them.
If you know someone who might be able to comment, please pass a link along.
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4 April 2011-- Edited to add: The owner has requested that I remove images of the painting.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bluejo's aunt was kind enough to point out that the painting depicts "Education of the Virgin;" the child is Mary, the mom is St. Anna (or Anne), and the bearded man is Mary's father, St. Joachim. She adds, "It looks Spanish seventeenth century."
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Do you know when this might have been painted, or by whom? Are there clues in the style? Is it likely original, or is it an imitation of a better-known painting?
There must be plenty of people on the Net more knowledgeable about art than I. Probably I am not many handshakes away from some of them.
If you know someone who might be able to comment, please pass a link along.
4 April 2011-- Edited to add: The owner has requested that I remove images of the painting.
bluejo's aunt was kind enough to point out that the painting depicts "Education of the Virgin;" the child is Mary, the mom is St. Anna (or Anne), and the bearded man is Mary's father, St. Joachim. She adds, "It looks Spanish seventeenth century."
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Date: 2011-07-18 09:38 pm (UTC)Jeez, how many visitors to this blog have some project like that? "Yup, been meanin' ta get ta thet..."
A familiar example of this (to mathematicians, anyway) is Ramanujan's "Lost Notebook": briefly, R. died in 1920, leaving a thick sheaf of manuscript papers put in the hands of G.N. Watson for scrutiny, editing, and, ultimately, publication; it was recovered from a pile on the floor of Watson's flat a couple years after his death in 1965; and at least edited and published within the last six years...