The Holy Family in an Interior
1643
- Medium
- etching, drypoint and engraving
- Dimensions
- 18.2 × 21.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-215004
Ferdinand Bol made this etching just one year after he left the studio of his famous teacher, Rembrandt van Rijn, adopting his master’s motif of a dark domestic interior as the setting for a biblical scene. Here, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus sit within a contemporary Dutch interior with the light from a window the sole source of illumination, revealing an open book at a small desk. The rest of the room is in deep shadow. As Mary nurses the child, Joseph stands by with a swaddling cloth. To their left is a curtained cupboard bed of the type commonly found within Dutch living rooms, a bassinet, a nu…
Provenance
Wade Fund, 2024.85
Registry history
- 1643 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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