The Holy Family in a Landscape

c. 1520/1535

Jan Rombouts the Elder

Associated Names
Jan Rombouts the Elder

Artist, Flemish, c. 1480 - 1535

The image contains two figures, a man standing and a woman seated. The man has a bushy beard and curly hair, while the woman has long wavy hair. The man is holding a staff and pointing, while the woman is holding a naked baby. They are surrounded by detailed textures of a rocky ground, grass, trees, a village with stone buildings, mountains, and clouds in the sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 14.3 × 11 cm (5 5/8 × 4 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.5834

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Gilhofer & Ranschburg sale, Nov. 16 & 17, 1926, no. 392); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Life of Christ, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 1958-1959, no catalogue.

1961

  • Christmas Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961-1962, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1956, vol. XIII, no. 3 (as Master NAR, Jan van Rillaer).

2011

  • Bruijnen, Yvette. _Jan Rombouts: The Discovery of an Early Sixteenth-Century Master in Louvain._Turnhout: Brepols, 2011, pp. 43-45.

2012

  • Bruijnen, Yvette., et al. _Getekend, Jan R.: Jan Rombouts, een Renaissancemeester Herokntdekt._exh. cat., Louvain: M - Museum Leuven, 2012, no. 43, pp. 188-189.

Inscriptions

lower right, in image, on tablet: IANR [artist's monogram]; on verso, at lower left, in graphite: B19152; on verso, at lower left, in graphite: 32947

Markings

verso, lower left, stamped in black ink: NGA/Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt 1932d)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65023832

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