A Rocky Landscape with the Temptation of Christ
Sebastian Vrancx
1620s(?)
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
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 · 1573–1647
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...