The Holy Family

c. 1632

Rembrandt van Rijn

Associated Names
Rembrandt van Rijn

Artist, Dutch, 1606 - 1669

The image shows two adults and one child, displaying their upper bodies. The adult on the left is sitting with a slightly forward-leaning posture, face turned towards the child, wearing a turban-style headdress. The adult on the right is also sitting, slightly hunched over, with their head inclined downwards toward the child, wearing a cloth wrapped around their head and clothing that drapes in folds around their body. The child is nestled between them, held in the arms of the adult on the right, wearing a covering that wraps around the body. The setting appears to be indoors with a textured, cross-hatched background. Additionally, a garment hangs in the background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.6 x 7.3 cm (3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 10.3 x 7.9 cm (4 1/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1975.5.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    White/Boon 1969, no. 62, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

2006

  • Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography

1923

  • Hind, Arthur M. A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings. London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1923.

1969

  • White, Christopher and Karel G. Boon. Rembrandt's Etchings. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1969.

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1993: no. 114, only.

Wikidata ID

Q65576433

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