Virgin Bowing to Instruments of the Passion

Pierre Brebiette

Artist, French, 1598 - c. 1650

Pierre Brebiette

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 11.4 x 15.8 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.139.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    IFF (1600), vol. 2, no. 24

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • I.F.F. 1600, 1939-68, vol.2, no. 24.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: Brebiette; lower right in plate [in banderole]: INRI; along bottom margin of plate: Cum Privilegio Regis. Consolatriz afflictorum ora pro nobis. Aug Quesnel exc.; by later hand, upper edge verso, in graphite: N.B. The Virgin is German Pilou's sculpture c. 610/P. Brebiette/la Vierge s'incline devant les instruments de la passion/ inv. B.N. 24.

Wikidata ID

Q76558976

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