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The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Young Baptist and His Parents
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The Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Young Baptist and His Parents

early 1620s and 1650s

Dimensions

66 7/8 x 59 in. (169.9 x 149.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, 1871

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Jacob Jordaens

1593–1678Spanish Netherlands

Flemish painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman. He was the first child of Jacob Jordaens (d 5 Aug 1618), a wealthy cloth merchant, and Barbara van Wolschaten (d 11 Feb 1633). In 1607, at the age of 14, he apprenticed himself to the Antwerp painter Adam van Noort, who later became his father-in-law. Comment on works: Landscapes; Mythology; Genre; Religious; Portraits