Mary in Prayer and St. John the Baptist

This composition is composed of two panel painting details that were joined later. One detail shows Mary with clasped hands kneeling on a cloud, while the other shows St. John the Baptist also kneeling, with his arms open in prayer. The two figures may have originally belonged to a Deesis depiction. Mary and St. John the Baptist were perhaps cut out of the composition and placed together in a 19th-century frame in order to be sold on the art market.

Provenance:
Ipolyi Collection. ‘135. Picture in two parts, one half shows Mary, the other St. John the Baptist. Panel. Imitates the style of the 17th c.’ (Lakatos-Balla 290)

Bibliography
Genthon-1948}, 122. – –Boskovits-Mojzer-Mucsi-1964, 162. – Lakatos-Balla-2012 290.

Provenance

Ipolyi gyűjtemény. “135. Kétosztatú kép, egyik felén Mária, a másikon Ker. szt. János. Deszkán. A XVII. sz. elejének modorát utánozza.” (Lakatos-Balla 290)

Exhibitions

• 1930 Budapest, Műcsarnok 50. sz.

Bibliography

• Lakatos-Balla Attila: Ipolyi Arnold püspök hagyatéka Nagyváradon. Miscellanea Historica Varadinensia III. Nagyvárad 2012 290.
• Boskovits Miklós-Mojzer Miklós-Mucsi András: Az esztergomi Keresztény Múzeum képtára (Budapest, 1964. Akadémiai Kiadó), 162.
• Magyarország műemléki topográfiája I. Esztergom 1. Esztergom műemlékei (összeállította: Genthon István; Budapest 1948), 122.