Holy Family in an Oval Frame
Ludolph Büsinck
1623
- Medium
- Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks, on paper
- Dimensions
- Image/block: 30.8 × 21.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Sheet: 31.7 × 22.3 cm (12 1/2 × 8 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- Woodcut
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingwoodcutpaper (fiber product)
About
Büsinck worked in Paris from 1623 to 1630, and was the first artist in France to make chiaroscuro woodcuts. He created about twenty-four in that period, mostly of religious or genre subjects by Georges Lallemand. His works show the influence of Hendrik Goltzius.
