Jacob Jordaens, 1620 - The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Young Baptist and His Parents - fine art print

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Jordaens frequently revised his own paintings after many years, as he did here. The Christ Child, Mary and Joseph, the Virgin’s mother Saint Anne, and probably a version of the infant Saint John the Baptist were depicted as a close family gathering in the early 1620s. At least twenty-five years later the artist added boards to the oak panel and painted the Baptist’s parents, Saints Elizabeth and Zacharias, and an angel on the left. Their more painterly style contrasts with the Caravaggesque modeling of the earlier figures. The cartouche, inscribed "If the root be holy, so are the branches" (from Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans) was added during the second stage of work. The shift from intimate to didactic presentation is typical of Jordaens’s late work.

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In 1620 the artist Jacob Jordaens painted this 17th century masterpiece. The original had the size: 66 7/8 x 59 in (169,9 x 149,9 cm) and was painted with oil on wood. This work of art is included in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, 1871 (licensed: public domain). The creditline of the artwork is the following: Purchase, 1871. Furthermore, alignment is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width. Jacob Jordaens was a painter, whose style was mainly Baroque. The European artist was born in 1593 and died at the age of 85 in 1678 in Antwerp.

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