Hendrick Goltzius
The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist
1593
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Mount: 485 x 370 mm. (19 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 485 x 366 mm. (19 1/8 x 14 7/16 in.)
Plate: 475 x 356 mm. (18 11/16 x 14 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate 6 from the series "The Birth and Early Life of Christ"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.12050
James Clifton, Sarah Campbell, and Walter Melion, The Museum of Biblical Art, NY, "Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustrations in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century," 4 June - 27 September 2009, traveled to Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 17 October 2009 - 24 January 2010, cat. 27c.
Melion, Walter. "Karel van Mander's 'Life of Goltzius:' Defining the Paradigm of Protean Virtuosity in Haarlen around 1600," in Studies in the History of Art, 27 (1988) pp 113-123.
Melion, Walter. "Hendrik Goltzius's Project of Reproductive Engraving," Art History, 13, no 1 (December 1990), pp. 458-473.
Inscribed: Recto: in image, lower left, in plate "HG / 1593. / 6"; below image, lower margin, in plate four lines of text in Latin, in two columns, beginning "PRÆCVRSOR DOMINI LACTANTIS [...]" Verso: lower left in graphite diamond with "9099 / 6"
Markings: CM: Claghorn (on verso of mount)
