Saint Paul Baptizing the Eunuch

1637/1642

Sébastien Bourdon

Associated Names
Sébastien Bourdon

Artist, French, 1616 - 1671

Louis Boissevin

Publisher, French, c. 1610 - 1685

This is a drawing showing figures and a horse. Several figures are depicted in what seems to be a significant moment, with a group under a tree in the foreground. A horse is included on the right, and the background displays dramatic cloud formations. Architectural elements are visible on the left. The drawing exhibits detailed line work typical of engravings depicting historic events.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 34.7 × 26.8 cm (13 11/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
    mount: 48.6 × 36.5 cm (19 1/8 × 14 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.113.44

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil 1967, no. 30, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: no. 30, ii/ii

2000

  • Thuillier, Jacques. Sébastien Bourdon, 1616 - 1671. Paris, 2000: no. 70, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

upper right in image: Seb. Bourdon in. et fecit / L. Boissevin ex. cum privil Regis; below image in plate: Philippus Apostolus Angeli monti Eunicum Candacis Reginae / AEthiopu in itinere affecutu instruit de fide in Christum et Baptizat. / St Philippe Apostre adverti par un Ange se presente dans le chemin a l'Eunuque de la / Reine des Ethiopiens nomee Candace, et la yant instruit aux mysteres de la foy le baptiz; by later hand, lower left of mount in graphite: D. P. Gr. franc vol I pag 149 Nr. 30, 1r etat

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