Holy Family with Angels and the Cross, Crushing a Serpent, 1639

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.2 x 41.8 cm (11 7/8 x 16 7/16 in.)

sheet: 30.8 x 42.1 cm (12 1/8 x 16 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Robert-Dumesnil, no. 4, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2002.93.1

Artists / Makers

Laurent de La Hyre (artist) French, 1606 - 1656

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center of plate: Ren. Guerineau excud. Cum Privilegio Regis; lower left in plate:L. de la Hyre in & Sculp. 1639; across bottom of plate: CL V. DD IOAN. BALESDENS...AETERNUS DEVOTVS Renat Guerineau; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: Laurent de la Hyre / Paris 1606 - 1656 / Nagler VI S 553 No 4 / 30 x 42 cm

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Boston); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bergquist, James A., Mr.

Bibliography

1967: Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe

1988: Rosenberg, Pierre, and Jacques Thuillier. Laurent de la Hyre, 1606 - 1656. Geneva, 1988.