Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist

c. 1513

Jacopo Francia

Associated Names
Jacopo Francia

Artist, Italian, 1486 or before - 1557

The image shows a group scene with multiple figures. On the right, there is a seated woman holding a swaddled infant. Beside her stands a man holding a staff. In the center left, a naked child stands on a decorated plinth with a pole. Seated beside the child, a woman winds something onto a spindle. In the top left corner, two women are engaged in a conversation. The background features a tiled floor and detailed walls, suggesting an interior setting with steps.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 22.6 x 25.3 cm (8 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4366

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.232, no. 8

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 80.

1945

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 38.

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 339, repro.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

1973

  • Levenson et al. 1973, no.181.

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q64958547

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