Sacra famiglia con una santa | |
Artist: | Andrea Mantegna |
Year: | 1495-1505 |
Medium: | tempera on canvas |
Height Metric: | 76 |
Width Metric: | 55,5 |
City: | Verona |
Museum: | Museo di Castelvecchio |
The Holy Family with a Female Saint is a 1495–1505 tempera on canvas painting attributed to Andrea Mantegna - the lose of the original finish and re-painting means that the painting itself cannot be securely attributed to him, though the silverpoint under-drawing is definitely in the master's hand. To the left is saint Joseph and to the right is an unidentified female saint, possibly Mary Magdalene.[1]
It is now in the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, from which it was stolen on the evening of 19 November 2015 along with sixteen other works.[2] They were found near Odessa in Ukraine on 6 May the following year, from which they were about to be sold on into Ukraine and Russia.[3] They were returned to the museum later in 2016[4]
Marco Boschini saw a Mantegna Holy Family in the sacristy of the Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice in the 17th century, which was either this work or the Altman Madonna.