Holy Family with Angels
Medium
Etching and aquatint, with stop out varnish and spit bite, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
18 × 12.4 cm (7 1/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
149522
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints Drawings collection, *Holy Family with Angels* by Jean-Jacques Lagren captures a tender moment from Christian iconography. Created by the French rococo artist (1730–1801), this intimate etching depicts the Virgin Mary, infant Christ, Saint Joseph, and attendant angels in a serene, devotional scene. Lagrenée, trained in the elegant rococo style, infused his works with graceful forms and soft lighting, reflecting the 18th-century French taste for refined religious imagery amid the opulence of the Ancien Régime. The print's technical brilliance sh...
About the Artist
Jean-Jacques Lagrenée (French) · 1739 –1821
French, Paris 1739–1821 Paris