Les Festes du mois de Feburier (February: the Purification of the Virgin), 1603

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series Title

Le Sacré Zodiaque (The Sacred Zodiac Divided into Twelve Months)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.1 × 13.1 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/16 in.)

sheet: 29.1 × 20.4 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1600), no. 95

Accession Number

2015.44.4

Artists / Makers

Léonard Gaultier (artist) French, 1561 - 1641

Jean Leclerc (publisher) French, c. 1587 - 1633

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in plate: Les Festes du Mois de Feburier.; center in plate: S. Matthias le 24./la Chaire S Pierre le 22./la Purification de la Vierge Marie le 2; lower left in plate: L. Gaultier/sculpcit; lower center in plate: Au mois de Feburier la Chandeleur se feste,.../A se bien resjouir et faire les jours gras.;lower right in plate: J. le Clerc/excudit.

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S. A., Paris); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1939: IFF (1600), no. 95