A Rocky Landscape with the Temptation of Christ

A Rocky Landscape with the Temptation of Christ by Sebastian Vrancx

Medium

etching with engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.2 × 18.7 cm (9 15/16 × 7 3/8 in.) sheet: 25.9 × 19.2 cm (10 3/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2013.74.1

About the Artist

Sebastian Vrancx · 15731647

Sebastiaen Vrancx (1573–1647) was a pioneering Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman, and print designer who fundamentally transformed Northern European art through his innovative approach to battle scene painting. Baptized in Antwerp's Sint-Jacobskerk on January 22, 1573, and dying in the same city on May 19, 1647, Vrancx lived through one of the most tumultuous periods in Netherlandish history—th...

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