# The Holy Family with Saint Joseph Holding the Rose

- By: Bartholomaeus Spranger (Flemish, 1546 - 1611)
- Date: about 1591
- Medium: Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on blue paper, incised for transfer
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: Unframed: 22.2 × 16.3 cm (8 3/4 × 6 7/16 in.)
- Culture: Flemish
- Credit line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Museum: [J. Paul Getty Museum](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/10P4NJ)
- Rights: [CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c45716d47817e01997090dcb7061a03c.jpg
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