Les Festes du mois de Decembre (December: The Nativity)

1603

Léonard Gaultier

Artist, French, 1561 - 1641

Jean Leclerc

Publisher, French, c. 1587 - 1633

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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

  • 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

You may be interested in

Loading Results