# Jesus and St John the Baptist in their Childhood [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JEGHER, Christoffel]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Woodcut, 2nd state, 342 x 465 mm ## Commentary Jesus and St John the Baptist in their Childhood - Woodcut, 2nd state, 342 x 465 mm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg This woodcut was made after a composition by Rubens. Having realized the potential profits to be made from reproductive prints of his work, Rubens began to engage printmakers from 1619 onward. In the early 1630s, he turned to woodcuts in close collaboration with Christoffel Jegher. Indeed, Jegher's place in art history as the most important woodcutter of his time rests exclusively on the nine large single-page woodcuts that resulted from this collaboration. ## Related artworks - [The Garden of Love]() - [The Garden of Love]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()