Mater Dolorosa

Artist Onorio Marinari (Italian, 1627-1715)

Date1670s

CultureItalian

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

ProvenanceRobert Stayner Holford (1808–1892), Westonbirt, Gloucestershire; by descent to Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860–1926), Westonbirt, Gloucestershire; (sold Holford sale, Christie’s, London, 15 July 1927, lot 43, for £131–5s, to Julius Böhler); purchased in 1930 by John Ringling (1866–1936), Sarasota, Florida; bequest in 1936 to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.

Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936

Object numberSN136

Onorio Marinari was the best pupil and cousin of Carlo Dolci, to whom this painting was formerly attributed. Dolci, the most important Florentine painter of the 17th century, conceived several versions of this intimate, melancholy portrayal of the Virgin, intended for private devotion in a domestic setting. The composition's popularity is suggested by numerous surviving replicas and reinterpretations--of which this painting is one--executed by Dolci's followers.

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