The Conquest of Ignorance

1560s

René Boyvin

Artist, French, c. 1525 - 1598 or c. 1625

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut within platemark): 28.7 x 42.5 cm (11 5/16 x 16 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.162.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil, no. 16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 16, 1970; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: MALI, OSTIV / LOVIS; lower left in plate: Rous. Floren. Inven. / Renatus Fecit.

Wikidata ID

Q76355813

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