The Coronation of the Virgin and The Flight into Egypt1648/71
Jan de Bisschop painted this in 1648/71, aged about 20. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago. More about this work
About this work
A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper.
Description from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jan de Bisschop painted this in 1648/71, aged about 20. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.
How it was made
- Pen and ink
- Drawn with a quill or reed pen, often with wash added by brush to model light and shadow.
- Laid paper
- Handmade on a mould of close-set wires, which leave fine parallel lines you can see when the sheet is held to the light.
Jan de Bisschop
Dutch, 1628–1671
Dutch Golden Age
Seventeenth-century painting from the Dutch Republic: still lifes, interiors, portraits and flat, wide skies.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Art Institute of Chicago has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 1961.30
- Credit
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Type
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
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