The ancient prints - Engravings

HOLY FAMILY WITH THE CHILD, SANTA ELISABETTA AND SAN GIOVANNINO
Etching and engraving engraving, mm. 445x325
"P. Paulus Rubbens pinxit. / S. à Bolswert fecit "(bottom left); "Gillis Hendricx excudit. / Antverpiae Cum privilege "
(bottom right).
Inscriptions: "Agnus adest Agnis: ludunt quoque parvus, et Infans / Inde Haec delicias, hinc capit illa suas. / Infans est Jesus,
but tris qui ludit in ulnis. / Parvus Joannes Agnus utrumque notat ".
Faithful reproduction of the existing Holy Family in the Earl of Lonsdale collection, Lower Castle, of which there is one
copy in the Palatine Gallery of Florence, inv. 235, which came into the collection of Prince Ferdinand of Tuscany at the
end of the seventeenth century with the attribution to Jan van den Hoecke, Rooses had recognized a work of the shop.
Another example is at the Walzer Art Center in Minneapolis. J. A. Goris and J.S. Held, 1947, p. 33, they believe
whether it is a work by William Panneels, abundantly retouched by Rubens.
We know that Panneels was inspired by this composition in one of his etchings. There is also an engraving
back of the same subject, deriving from the Florence painting.