Jan (Hans) Witdoeck

Jan (Hans) Witdoeck belongs to the generation of Flemish reproductive engravers active in the second quarter of the seventeenth century, working above all with the burin in the service of religious imagery. His prints translate devotional subjects — the Adoration of the Kings, the Holy Family with the infant Saint John the Baptist and the martyrdom of Saint Just — into dense, linear compositions. The four sheets gathered here are engravings in early states, among them second and third states of two or three, dated by the museum to the years between 1635 and 1640.

4 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

The Adoration of the Kings

1638 · Engraving; third state of three

The Miracle of Saint Just

1639 · Engraving; second state of two

The Holy Family with Elizabeth and the infant Saint John the Baptist, the Virgin nursing the infant Christ

ca. 1635–42 · Engraving; second state of three

The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the infant Saint John the Baptist (ca. 1640–53)

ca. 1640–53 · Engraving; third state of three (Hollstein)