The Child Jesus

c. 1643

Claude Mellan

Artist, French, 1598 - 1688

Claude Mellan

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 44 × 29.2 cm (17 5/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 47.5 × 32.5 cm (18 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.27.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Montaiglon 1856, no. 19

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Veste Coburg (Lugt 451a). (Paul Prouté, Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1856

  • Montaiglon, Anatole de. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan d'Abbeville. Abbeville: P.Briex, 1856: no. 19

1939

  • IFF (1600): 16

Inscriptions

lower center in image: PVER IESV REX COELORVM / PVERVM PEGEM GALLORVM / LVUDOVICVM PROTEGE / Summo utrique puero ac Regi / Iesu et Ludovico C. Mellan G. P. et scul. D / C. P. R.; by later hand, lower edge in graphite: d. / No. 18 / La M 19 / M 19; arte / M86 TX71/DRP; lower right in graphite and chalk: 2p14/GB / 170892; 6818

Watermarks

indistinct

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