The Holy Family with Saint Elisabeth and the Infant John the Baptist
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper, drum mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.4 × 20.1 cm (10 × 7 15/16 in.); Plate/primary support: 26.6 × 20.7 cm (10 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 29.5 × 23.4 cm (11 5/8 × 9 1/4 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50237
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Lucas Emil Vorsterman · 1595–1675
Lucas Vorsterman the Elder, also known as Lucas Emil Vorsterman (1595–1675), was a preeminent Flemish Baroque engraver renowned for his reproductive prints after the era's leading painters. Born in Zaltbommel in the Dutch province of Gelderland to a family of artists, his early life remains sparsely documented beyond the fact that he began practicing engraving at the age of twelve. Around 1617–161...