Holy Family Seated on an Arch

1642/1652

Sébastien Bourdon

Associated Names
Sébastien Bourdon

Artist, French, 1616 - 1671

The image shows five figures in various positions. A bearded man is seated and leaning on a staff, supporting his head with one hand. Beside him is a woman seated with her body turned slightly to the right. Two children are sitting on a stone ledge, one facing forward and the other reaching out towards a sheep. The setting includes large stone pillars on the left, a stone building with a rounded tower behind the figures, and various architectural elements. In the background, there is a bare tree on the right and clouds in the sky. The scene is rendered in a classical style with emphasis on line work and shading.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 19.6 × 28.7 cm (7 11/16 × 11 5/16 in.), trimmed to platemark

  • Accession Number

    2018.113.42

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil 1967, no. 3 (rejected prints), State undesc?

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: rejected prints, no. 3, undesc state?

2000

  • Thuillier, Jacques. Sébastien Bourdon, 1616 - 1671. Paris, 2000: no. 112, i/iii?.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left verso: [not deciphered]; by later hand, center verso: Seb. Bourdon; by later hand, lower verso in graphite: 45 X P. G. France I. p157. No. 3, attribue a Bourdon

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