Virgin Bowing to Instruments of the Passion

Pierre Brebiette

Associated Names
Pierre Brebiette

Artist, French, 1598 - c. 1650

The image shows a seated woman covered by a draped garment, with her head slightly turned downward. She has her hands over her chest. To her left, there are small figures of an infant holding an object and another figure reclining with wings on their backs. There is a simple background with a column on the left side and a lightly sketched sky on the right with cloud-like forms. Objects are at the feet of the woman.

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Not on view See artworks now on view

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

You may be interested in

Loading Results