Les Festes du mois de Mars (March: The Annunciation)

1603

Léonard Gaultier

Associated Names
Léonard Gaultier

Artist, French, 1561 - 1641

Jean Leclerc

Publisher, French, c. 1587 - 1633

This is a drawing depicting religious scenes and figures associated with the month of March. The image shows various symbolic elements and figures, structured into different sections. One section features an angel kneeling and pointing upwards while holding a staff with a scroll. Opposite is a seated figure with a halo. Above are three scenes depicting different figures and landscapes, each with inscriptions related to religious celebrations in March. The artwork is highly detailed with fine lines and crosshatching, conveying a sense of divine intervention and tradition.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.9 × 12.9 cm (7 7/16 × 5 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 29.1 × 20.5 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.44.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1600), no. 96

  • Series Title

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • IFF (1600), no. 96

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: Les Feste du Mois de Janvier.; center in plate: S. Sebastien/le 20/l'Adoration des 3./Roys le 6/S. Genevieue le 3./Le Curconcision de nre S. le; lower left in plate: L. Gaultier/sculpcit; lower center in plate: La Circoncision, et Saincte Geneuiefue,.../Pour vemettre l'année en son cours ancien; lower right in plate: J. le Clerc/excudit.

Wikidata ID

Q77016072

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