The Massacre of the Innocents

c. 1618/1620

Jacques Callot

Artist, French, 1592 - 1635

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mollie B. Darr

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.7 x 10.4 cm (5 3/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 15.8 x 13.7 cm (6 1/4 x 5 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.45.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lieure, no. 278, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of Mrs. Mollie B. Darr; gift to NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1924

  • Lieure, J. Jacques Callot. 5 vols. Paris: Editions de la Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1924-1927. Reprint. 8 vols. New York: Collectors' Editions, 1969.

Inscriptions

by later hand across bottom in brown ink: 1er planche avant le [?] - Callot; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 278

Watermarks

partial watermark present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q75123070

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