Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Saint Mary Magdalene

The painting is placed in an elaborate baroque frame of carved, gilded and painted wood, with laurel leaf decorations. An engraving after the painting by Jan van Troyen was included in the Theatrum Pictorium, published in Antwerp in 1660 by the painter David Teniers the Younger. It was a collection of 243 engravings by various artists, taken from paintings belonging to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. From this engraving it is evident that the painting was originally taller and wider than it is now. Another engraving was made of it by Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, which was published in 1828. ==References==