Ferdinand Bol

The Family

Maker

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)

Title

The Family

Year

1643

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

etching, engraving

Supports

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

Marks: R.I.S.D. stamp in brown ink on verso.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Miss Ellen D. Sharpe

Object Number

50.367

Type

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions
Feb 15, 2019 – Aug 04, 2019

Label copy

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
Dec 05, 1951 – Jan 06, 1951

Image use

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616-1680)
The Family, 1643
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Plate: 18.4 x 21.8 cm (7 1/4 x 8 9/16 inches)
Museum purchase: gift of Miss Ellen D. Sharpe 50.367

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