The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist

1595

Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink, brown wash, and white heightening on brown prepared laid paper; incised for transfer; laid down

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 38.4 x 33.4 cm (15 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
    support: 39.8 x 35.5 cm (15 11/16 x 14 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.19.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reznicek 1961, no. 30

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

David Lachenmann; acquired 1989 by the NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1961

  • Reznicek, E.K.J. Die Zeichnungen von Hendrick Goltzius. 2 vols. (text and plate volumes), Utrecht, 1961.

1993

  • Reznicek, E.K.J. "Drawings by Hendrick Goltzius, Thirty Years Later: Supplement to the 1961 catalogue raisonné." Master Drawings XXXI (Autumn 1993): A 249, p. 277.

  • Reznicek, E.K.J. "Hendrick Goltzius, 1961-1991 - een overzicht van dertig jaar onderzoek". _Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek_XCII-XCIII (1993): 83

Inscriptions

lower center in brown ink with white heightening: HG / 1595 / cinque anni p: di morire.; lower left in brown ink: 10 f; by later hand, lower right in graphite: d 15; by later hand, upper center verso in brown ink: L. 27.; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: B. 20 / [?] Niederlanders; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: S; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Hendrik Goltzius / 1558-1616 Haarlem / 9/1 1929 aho; by later hand, lower left verso in red pencil: [']700

Wikidata ID

Q64573645

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