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Holy Family and Two Music-Making Angels

Jan Muller Netherlandish
After Bartholomeus Spranger Netherlandish
Publisher Harmen Jansz. Muller Netherlandish
ca. 1588–92
Not on view
Around 1590, Jan Muller began making engravings after designs by Bartholomeus Spranger, the court painter to the Emperor Rudolf II of Prague. Previously Hendrick Goltzius, the foremost Mannerist printmaker and most probably Muller’s teacher, had occupied the unofficial role as Spranger’s engraver, but when the former left the Netherlands to travel in Italy, Muller was the logical successor. The Holy Family with Two Music-Making Angels is Muller’s earliest print after Spranger and one of only two with religious rather than a mythological subjects, which were more typical of the worldly, sophisticated society of Rudolf’s court.

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  • Title: Holy Family and Two Music-Making Angels
  • Artist: Jan Muller (Netherlandish, Amsterdam 1571–1628 Amsterdam)
  • Artist: After Bartholomeus Spranger (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1546–1611 Prague)
  • Publisher: Harmen Jansz. Muller (Netherlandish, Amsterdam ca. 1540–1617 Amsterdam)
  • Date: ca. 1588–92
  • Medium: Engraving; probably second state of three (lacking titlespace below)
  • Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 11 1/4 × 13/16 in. (28.5 × 2.1 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
  • Object Number: 53.601.336(80)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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