The Veil of Saint Veronica

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 45.5 x 35.3 cm (17 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Robert-Dumesnil, no. 10, State only

Accession Number

1998.34.2

Artists / Makers

Nicolas de Plattemontagne (artist) French, 1631 - 1706

Philippe de Champaigne (artist after) French, 1602 - 1674

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: Dedi genas meas Vellentibus. / Faciem meam conspuentibus. Isaiae.50.v.6. / P. de Champaigne Pin. N. de Plate Montaigne Scul. Morin excu. comme Pri.; by later hands, bottom verso in graphite: R.-D. 10 / 62443b / raie / 961383 / (N. de Plate Montagne)

Provenance

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971); unidentified collector [stamp, Dr R in square, Lugt undescribed]; (Artemis, London); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Friedrich August II, King of Saxony

Exhibition History

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

1967: Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe

1976: Dorival, Bernard. Philippe de Champaigne, 1602-1674: La vie, l'oeuvre, et le catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1976: 2:142, no. 260.