The Holy Family

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Hendrik van der Borcht II|Wenceslaus Hollar

1642 · Etching, only state · Drawings and Prints

The holy family; Virgin Mary seated at left, holding Christ child in her right arm; John the Baptist child at right holding crucifix and reaching out his left hand to touch object held by Christ, observed by St Joseph in the background. The print reproduces an oil painting on canvas, dated c. 1520 and given to Raphael, in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (inv. P00302). (Text from Antony Griffiths, 'The Print in Stuart Britain', BM 1998, cat. 52) This etching was made after a painting or drawing in Arundel's collection (for a discussion of the possible original, which is closer to Raphael than to Perino, see D.Jaffé and others in Apollo, CXLIV 1996, p.31).

Artist

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Hendrik van der Borcht II|Wenceslaus Hollar

Date

1642

Medium

Etching, only state

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917