Holy Family in the Stable
mid-17th century
Medium
pen and brown ink over red chalk, with red wash and traces of white heightening. Traces of framing line in pen and black ink.
Dimensions
Diam. 7-1/4 in.
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Kate Ganz, in memory of Sally Ganz, 1998
Accession Number
1998.176
Tags
Art Historical Context
Govert Flinck's *Holy Family in the Stable*, a mid-17th-century drawing, captures an intimate moment of the biblical Holy Family—likely Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus—in a humble stable setting. Rendered in a rare circular tondo format (7-1/4 inches in diameter), this work exemplifies the Dutch Golden Age's mastery of preparatory sketches that often stood alone as finished artworks. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it was a generous gift from Kate Ganz in memory of Sally Ganz in 1998. Flinck, a talented pupil of Rembrandt, infused his drawings wit...