Les Festes du mois de Mai (May: The Ascension)

1603

Léonard Gaultier

Artist, French, 1561 - 1641

Jean Leclerc

Publisher, French, c. 1587 - 1633

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.1 × 13.1 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 29 × 20.4 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.44.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1600), no. 98

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • IFF (1600), no. 98

Inscriptions

upper center in plate: Les Feste du Mois de May.; center in plate: S. Jean porte latin/le 6./S. Jacques le min. S. Philippe le j./l'Inuent S.te Croix le 3.; lower left in plate: L. Gaultier/sculpcit; lower center in plate: Sainct Philippe avecq Sainct Jacques le mineur.../...Sainct Jan porte-latin est toujours le sixiesme.; lower right in plate: J. le Clerc/excudit.

Wikidata ID

Q77016076

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