The Holy Family
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 15/16 × 13 3/8 in. (43.1 × 34 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.660
Art Historical Context
The Holy Family is a striking etching created between 1535 and 1573 by the collaborative circle of Battista Angolo del Moro, Giulio Romano, and Battista Mondella. Measuring roughly 43 by 34 centimeters, this print belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Drawings and Prints collection, acquired through The Elisha Whittelsey Fund in 1951. Giulio Romano, a leading voice of the Mannerist movement and former pupil of Raphael, often supplied inventive designs that skilled printmakers like del Moro translated into widely circulated images. Etching emerged in the sixteenth century as an expressiv...