The Adoration of the Shepherds

after 1644

Jean Morin

Artist, French, c. 1600 - 1650

Jean Morin, after Philippe de Champaigne

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 46.5 × 28.8 cm (18 5/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 49.1 × 34.6 cm (19 5/16 × 13 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.4.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mazel 2004, no. 12, State ii/ii?


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jan Johnson, Quebec); purchased 2018 by NGA.

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. 18

2004

  • Mazel, Jean. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé de Jean Morin. Paris, 2004: no. 12, ii/ii?

Inscriptions

in plate below image: Sic Deus dilexit mundum ut filium suum unigenitum daret ut omnis qui / credit in eum non pereat sed habeat vitam aeternam Joan 3; lower left in plate: Ph Champaigne pinx; lower right in plate: J Morin scul. cum priv Regis

Watermarks

bunch of grapes in oval


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