The Massacre of the Innocents, Second Plate

1622

Jacques Callot

Artist, French, 1592 - 1635

Jacques Callot

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on vellum [proof]

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.5 x 10.8 cm (5 5/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 17.4 x 14.1 cm (6 7/8 x 5 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.4.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lieure, no. 427, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul McCarron, New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1924

  • Lieure, J. Jacques Callot. 5 vols. Paris: Editions de la Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1924-1927. Reprint. 8 vols. New York: Collectors' Editions, 1969.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Jac. Callot fe.; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: M6 L424; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 427; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Calot / M.6.II.

Wikidata ID

Q76342636

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