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The Holy Family — Peter Paul Rubens
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The Holy Family

Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640)
Date c. 1616/17
Collection Sanssouci, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Potsdam
Subject Holy Family
Season Christmas
Master 9,460 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution Bildergalerie Sanssouci, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam · GK I 7589

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Peter Paul Rubens
Date about 1616/17
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 170.5 x 129.5 cm
Holding Bildergalerie Sanssouci, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam · GK I 7589

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source Peter Paul Rubens 058.jpg
Master 9,460 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting

Sizes

sheet 8×10 in · image 7.5×10 in · archival margin · 946 dpi
sheet 11×14 in · image 10.5×14 in · archival margin · 676 dpi
sheet 16×20 in · image 15.1×20 in · archival margin · 473 dpi
sheet 18×24 in · image 18×23.9 in · archival margin · 396 dpi
sheet 24×36 in · image 24×31.9 in · archival margin · 297 dpi
sheet 32×48 in · image 32×42.5 in · archival margin · 223 dpi
sheet 40×60 in · image 40×53.1 in · archival margin · 178 dpi

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About this painting

Potsdam names this panel not for the Virgin but for a basket: Die heilige Familie mit dem Korb, the wickerwork in the lower right corner.

The figures the museum traces elsewhere — their arrangement to the Holy Family beneath the Oak of Raphael and Giulio Romano, the Christ Child's pose to Raphael's Bridgewater Madonna. Luke allows Nazareth a line, that the child was subject to them; Rubens furnished the silence out of Italy. The basket it traces to no one.

No patron is recorded, and no owner. The first year the record can place it anywhere is 1764.

Sources: Google Arts & Culture / SPSG partner page · Luke 2:51, Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · Verifier inspection of the project's own reference image, _look_rubens_holy_family.jpg

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.

Luke 2:51 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,460 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.