Wenceslaus Hollar, 1642 - The holy family - fine art print

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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).

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In 1642 the male artist Wenceslaus Hollar painted the baroque artpiece. The 370 years old work of art has the size: 8 x 6 3/16 in (20,3 x 15,7 cm). Etching, only state was used by the painter as the medium of the masterpiece. Nowadays, this work of art is included in the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. This public domain artpiece is being supplied with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917. : Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a ratio of 3 : 4, which implies that the length is 25% shorter than the width. Wenceslaus Hollar was a male illustrator, cartographer, printmaker, whose style can be classified as Baroque. The painter was born in 1607 in Prague, Praha, Hlavni Mesto, Czech Republic and passed away at the age of 70 in the year 1677.

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