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The Holy Family
Also titled De Heilige Familie
Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen (Utrecht, ca. –ca.)
1580 - 1613
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 501 mm x width 403 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This ‘rustic’ Holy Family (Jesus, Mary and Joseph) belongs to a group of large chalk drawings with robust figures that occupies an exceptional place in the oeuvre of the silversmith Paulus van Vianen. One of these drawings was a design for a small silver plaque. That may also have been the function of this drawing; however no plaque with such a depiction has been preserved.
