Saint Charles Borromeo Distributing Communion to the Victims of the Plague of 1576 in Milan
1755/1765
Artist, French, 1713 - 1789

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching touched with black ink on laid paper [proof]
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 49 × 31.5 cm (19 5/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
sheet: 51.1 × 33.1 cm (20 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2022.72.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Le Blanc 1854-1888, no. 4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased by NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1854
Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels: no. 4
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: P.f.; by later hand, lower center below image in graphite: etat; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Jean Baptiste Marie Pierre 1713 - 89 / [not deciphered]; 1125; XVII; III p. 370 no. 6; 798