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The Holy Family with Angels
1645 · oil on canvas · State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
For the Holy Family
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Our Lady lifts the edge of the cradle's cover with one hand and keeps a book open in the other. The Christ Child sleeps in plain wicker under a red coverlet. Angels come down out of the dark at the upper left, a fire burns low at the right, and behind her Saint Joseph bends to his carpentry. Caroline Farey of the Maryvale Institute sees parts of a yoke in the wood he shapes, for the Child who will one day speak of His own yoke, and reads the fleece lining the red coverlet as the Lamb of God, the Child showing who He is. Saint Justin Martyr wrote in the second century that Christ Himself made ploughs and yokes. Rembrandt keeps the house quiet. The yoke was a trade before it was a saying.
Sources: thehistoryofart.org, The Holy Family with Angels by Rembrandt · thehistoryofart.org, cross-checked with Web Gallery of Art and artbible.info · Encyclopaedia Britannica entry; artbible.info tripartite lighting analysis · Dr Caroline Farey (Maryvale Institute), 'Interpreting the Content of Rembrandt's Holy Family', New Liturgical Movement, February 2012 · artbible.info, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn: The Holy Family with Angels · Matthew 11:29, Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · St Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho, ch. 88 · Joan M. Hogan, 'The Iconography of Rembrandt's Depictions of the Holy Family (in a domestic setting)', MA thesis, Queen's University, 2008
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)