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The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a confraternity.
Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist, Andrea Mantegna, 1495-1500
Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece, c. 1500
Joos van Cleve, Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1512, adapting a van Eyck Madonna with Joseph added.
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a subject in Christian art showing Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus resting during their flight into Egypt. The Holy Family is normally shown in a landscape.
Orazio Gentileschi, 1625–1626
Joachim Patinir, 1518–1520, Prado
Gerard David, c. 1510, National Gallery of Art. Joseph is beating chestnuts from a tree.
Hans Memling triptych, 1475–1480, Louvre