The Holy Family Antique Painting Oil On Canvas Northern Europe

Oil on canvas. 17th-century Northern Italian school.
In this Holy Family, the central figure is Mary: seated in the center of the scene, she turns her face to her left toward Joseph, listening intently and with full concentration as her husband reads to her from a book; Meanwhile, the woman’s arms lovingly cover the infant Jesus with a cloth as he sleeps peacefully in the cradle to her right.
The Child’s face, moreover, is illuminated and radiates light toward his Mother.
In the background is an Italian landscape.
The figures appear harmonious and balanced in their bodily movements, and the entire scene exudes a sense of tranquility and domestic serenity, very down-to-earth.
The painting was retouched in the early 1900s.
Traces of previous tears and slight flaking of paint are visible.
It is presented in a gilded frame from the early 20th century (with flaking gilding).
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