The Massacre of the Innocents, 1540s(?)

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 31.1 × 41.3 cm (12 1/4 × 16 1/4 in.), trimmed within platemark

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Purchased as the Gift of Robert B. Loper

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, XIV, no. 21, copy A, State ii/ii (or of iii?)

Accession Number

2014.57.1

Artists / Makers

Nicolas Beatrizet (artist) French, 1515 - 1565 or after

Marco Dente (artist after) Italian, c. 1493 - 1527

Baccio Bandinelli (artist after) Florentine, 1488/1493 - 1560

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Ant Lafrery; on scroll at right: bacius / fiorentinus / SR

Provenance

Unidentified private collector (cipher on verso, not in Lugt). (sale, Christie's London, 3 December 2013, no. 53, as "After Baccio Bandinelli); (via Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Exhibition History

2018: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, no.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: no. 21, copy A, ii/ii(or iii?)