The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Angels
Johannes Glauber
n.d.
Medium
Red chalk, over traces of graphite, on buff laid paper
Dimensions
19.8 × 28 cm (7 13/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
84161
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Johannes Glauber · 1646–1726
**Johannes Glauber (1646–c. 1726)** was a Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his Italianate landscapes and decorative wall paintings. Born in Utrecht, he pursued art against the wishes of his father, the prominent chemist Johann Rudolph Glauber. He became a pupil of Nicolaes Berchem and lived for a time with Gerrit van Uylenburgh in Amsterdam, where he produced copies of Italianate landscapes f...