Holy Family in Joseph's Carpentry Shop
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with pink wash, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
27.3 × 24.1 cm (10 3/4 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
ink with wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84758
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Circle of Jacopo Chimenti, called Jacopo da Empoli · 1551–1640
**Jacopo da Empoli (also known as Jacopo Chimenti), 1551–1640, was a leading Florentine painter of the Counter-Mannerist reform movement.** Born Jacopo Chimenti in Florence on 30 April 1551, he took his professional name from Empoli, the town of his father’s birth. He worked almost exclusively in his native city and became known for clear, balanced compositions that rejected the exaggerated distor...