The Holy Family, after Jacob Jordaens
Medium
Etching on chine collé
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 5/16 × 13 11/16 in. (49 × 34.8 cm) Plate: 8 1/16 × 7 1/16 in. (20.5 × 18 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1912
Accession Number
12.191.21
Art Historical Context
This etching, created in 1871 by Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart after an original painting by the Flemish Baroque master Jacob Jordaens, captures the warmth and intimacy of the Holy Family. Jordaens, a leading Antwerp artist of the seventeenth century and a close follower of Peter Paul Rubens, often infused religious subjects with lively domestic details and rich human emotion. Here, the print preserves that spirit, allowing nineteenth-century viewers to appreciate the original composition through a carefully rendered reproduction. The work exemplifies the reproductive printmaking tradition of th...
About the Artist
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart|Jacob Jordaens|François Liénard|P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. · 1837–1880
**Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart: Master Etcher and Watercolorist** Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart was born on September 7, 1837, in Paris to Albert Jacquemart, a prominent art collector, ceramics historian, and amateur artist, and Louise Émilie Labbé. The third of four children, he received his initial training in etching from his father, who had no formal master himself and emphasized self-taught preci...