The Holy Family with Putti

Prints and Drawings

1640

Laurent de la Hyre
French, 1606-1656

Laurent de la Hyre studied at Fontainebleau between 1622 and 1625, where he probably learned printmaking. This etching, made in 1640 after a drawing now in Darmstadt, has been extolled as one of “masterpieces of French printmaking” by the art historians Pierre Rosenberg and Jacques Thuillier. A cluster of putti gather around the Virgin and infant Christ, who selects an apple from an overturned basket of fruit, reflecting his mission to redeem original sin.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Laurent de La Hyre
Title: The Holy Family with Putti
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1640
Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image: 28.8 × 40 cm (11 3/8 × 15 3/4 in.); Sheet: 30 × 40.5 cm (11 13/16 × 16 in.)
Credit Line: Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment
Reference Number: 2007.3
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