The Holy Family with Saint John and Saint Elizabeth
Medium
Etching and engraving in black on silk, satin weave
Dimensions
Image: 25.5 × 20.5 cm (10 1/16 × 8 1/8 in.); Plate: 27 × 21 cm (10 11/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 31.7 × 27 cm (12 1/2 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
213755
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...