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Ferdinand Bol

The Family, 1643

Description

Maker

  • Ferdinand Bol, 1616-1680, Dutch

Title

The Family

Year

1643

Medium

Etching and engraving on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching,
  • engraving

Supports

  • Medium weight cream laid paper.

Dimensions

Plate: 18.4 x 21.8 cm (7 1/4 x 8 9/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--verso:inscribed in pencil in center:B.4 only state/La FamilleIn Plate--signed and dated in circular windowpane on right: F. Bol/1643

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Miss Ellen D. Sharpe

Object Number

50.367

Projects & Publications

Publications

La Peintre Graveur, 1803-1821

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions

February 15 - August 4, 2019

A new mother sits in front of a window nursing her baby while her husband holds up a coverlet. Light streams in the large-paned window to highlight this intimate connection at the center, while the outlines of the room emerge faintly out of the shadows.

At the age of 20, Bol moved to Amsterdam to study with Rembrandt. The influence of the teacher on his pupil is evident in this etching, which Bol executed a year after starting his own studio. Here Bol was particularly inspired by the “dark manner” etchings Rembrandt first devised.

Nativity and Epiphany Prints from the 15th to the 18th Centuries

December 5, 1951

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