The Child Jesus, c. 1643

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 44 × 29.2 cm (17 5/16 × 11 1/2 in.)

sheet: 47.5 × 32.5 cm (18 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Montaiglon 1856, no. 19

Accession Number

2019.27.4

Artists / Makers

Claude Mellan (artist) French, 1598 - 1688

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in image: PVER IESV REX COELORVM / PVERVM PEGEM GALLORVM / LVUDOVICVM PROTEGE / Summo utrique puero ac Regi / Iesu et Ludovico C. Mellan G. P. et scul. D / C. P. R.; by later hand, lower edge in graphite: d. / No. 18 / La M 19 / M 19; arte / M86 TX71/DRP; lower right in graphite and chalk: 2p14/GB / 170892; 6818

Provenance

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Veste Coburg (Lugt 451a). (Paul Prouté, Paris); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1856: Montaiglon, Anatole de. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan d'Abbeville. Abbeville: P.Briex, 1856: no. 19

1939: IFF (1600): 16