The Holy Family with Saint Catherine, Saint John the Evangelist, and an Angel

Bellange employed stippling—dense clusters of fine dots—to model light and shadow, giving the figures a delicate, almost luminous quality. The etching reflects a Northern Mannerist aesthetic, marked by intricate detail, elongated forms, and a sense of theatrical motion.

Created near the end of Bellange’s life, the print belongs to the small corpus of works he produced while serving as court painter to the Duke of Lorraine. He died around 1616, and the print has since circulated among collections of early 17th‑century French prints.

Bellange’s output was largely confined to the final three or four years before his death, during which he focused on religious subjects for the ducal court. His prints, including this one, illustrate the diffusion of Mannerist visual language into the Lorraine region, bridging Italian influences and local artistic traditions.