The Holy Family with Angels (1645) is an oil painting on canvas by the Dutch painter Rembrandt.
In the foreground of Joseph's carpenter's workshop, the Virgin Mary sits on a low chair, holding a large open book on her left arm.
Mary wears a deep red gown and dark blue skirt, and a white kerchief and cap.
A pen-drawing for the picture is in the collection of Leon Bonnat, Paris; reproduced by Lippmann-Hofstede de Groot, No.
Lithographed by H. Robillard in Gohier Desfontaines and P. Petit, Galerie de l' Ermitage, i.
In the Crozat collection, Paris; bought for the Hermitage by the Empress Catherine ii.
In the foreground Jesus is asleep in the same style of wicker crib that can be seen in period paintings of mothers with babies by Pieter de Hooch.
Mary looks up from her book to take a peek at the sleeping child under the crib curtain (Dutch: klamboe).
In the background Joseph is working on making a yoke.The yoke refers both to the coming of the Lord according to Isaiah ("For the yoke of their burden, and the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian"), as well as the words of Jesus according to Matthew the Apostle ("Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.