Les Festes du mois de Decembre (December: The Nativity), 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 × 12.9 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.)

sheet: 29 × 20.4 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1600), no. 105

Accession Number

2015.44.14

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 Feste du Mois de Decembre.; center in plate: S. Nicolas le 6. La Conception de la Vierge Marie le 8. S. Thomas le 21./Les Innocents le 28./S. Jean l'evang le 27./S. Estienne le 26/La nativité de nre seigneur le 25.; lower left in plate: L. Gaultier/sculpcit; lower center in plate: Sainct Nicolas on feste, et la vierge Marie.../...Sainct Estienne sainct Jean, avec les Innocents.; 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. 105