Christ Washing the Apostles' Feet

c. 1618

Jacques Callot

Artist, French, 1592 - 1635

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    R.L. Baumfeld Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.1 × 21.5 cm (4 3/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 15.2 × 25 cm (6 × 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1969.15.48

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lieure, no. 281, State ii/iv


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1963

  • Jacques Callot: a selection of prints from the collections of Rudolf L. Baumfeld and Lessing J. Rosenwald, NGA, 1963, no. 15a.

1975

  • Jacques Callot: Prints and Related Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1975, no. 163, repro.

Bibliography

1860

  • Meaume 12.

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.

1975

  • Russell 1975, 163.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Iac. Callot Fec.; lower center in plate: Humilis en christus: quia aqua lavat ipse ministros, / Nos autem proprio sanguine mundificat. (Behold the humble Chri

Wikidata ID

Q65509044


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