Les Festes du mois de Decembre (December: The Nativity)
1603
Artist, French, 1561 - 1641
Publisher, French, c. 1587 - 1633

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
2015.44.14
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Catalogue Raisonné
IFF (1600), no. 105
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Paul Prouté, S. A., Paris); purchased 2014 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1939
IFF (1600), no. 105
Inscriptions
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.
Wikidata ID
Q77016089