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Holy Family with Angels and the Cross, Crushing a Serpent
1639
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 30.2 x 41.8 cm (11 7/8 x 16 7/16 in.) sheet: 30.8 x 42.1 cm (12 1/8 x 16 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2002.93.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Laurent de La Hyre. Holy Family with Angels and the Cross, Crushing a Serpent. Laurent de La Hyre; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laurent_de_La_Hyre,_Holy_Family_with_Angels_and_the_Cross,_Crushing_a_Serpent,_1639,_NGA_125296.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Holy Family with Angels and the Cross, Crushing a Serpent — Laurent de La Hyre. 1639.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 30.2 x 41.8 cm (11 7/8 x 16 7/16 in.) sheet: 30.8 x 42.1 cm (12 1/8 x 16 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2002.93.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.