The Holy Family Resting on the Flight into Egypt
Jacques Bellange
1600–1617
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with charcoal, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24 × 20 cm (9 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- pen and ink drawings
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkpaintchalkinkpen and ink drawingswhite gouachegouachewashplant materialbrown washprints and drawingcolored inkinorganic materialbrown inkwatercolorcoating (material)paper (fiber product)water-base paintcharcoal
About
Jacques Bellange was among the most celebrated painters at the court of Lorraine, based 150 miles north of Paris in the sity of Nancy. Few of his paintings have survived, however, and he is appreciated today primarily for his drawings and etchings. The graceful elegance of the figures and the chiaroscuro effect of the brown wash in this drawing are trademarks of Bellange's style.
