Holy Family with Christ Child Stepping on Serpent
Medium
Etching; second state of two (Robert-Dumesnil)
Dimensions
sheet: 12 1/16 x 16 3/8 in. (30.6 x 41.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
Accession Number
67.797.12
Tags
About the Artist
Laurent de La Hyre|Jean Balesdens|Renato Guerineau · 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...