Holy Family with Angels and the Cross, Crushing a Serpent
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 30.2 x 41.8 cm (11 7/8 x 16 7/16 in.) sheet: 30.8 x 42.1 cm (12 1/8 x 16 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2002.93.1
About the Artist
Laurent de La Hyre · 1606–1656
Laurent de La Hyre (1606–1656) was a French painter whose elegant, classical compositions placed him among the finest artists of the first generation of French Baroque painters working in Paris. Born into an artistic family — his father Étienne de La Hyre was also a painter — Laurent received his early training largely through independent study rather than formal apprenticeship under a single domi...