The Crowned Virgin in a Niche, 1543

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper mounted on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 21.8 × 10.9 cm (8 9/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
mount: 23.1 × 12.5 cm (9 1/8 × 4 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Zerner 1969, no. 12

Accession Number

1971.36.5

Artists / Makers

Geoffroy Dumoûtier (artist) French, active c. 1535 - 1573

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, at lower right: Lettered in plate lower right: 1543 / IEHAN 1.2; in plate, below image: [a]ulcun a peche nous avons ung advocat auprez du pere Ihs Cri[st] / [ju]ste et cestuy est La reconciliation pour noz pechez; along bottom edge in brown ink in later hand: Geoffoy Dumontier fecit.; verso: at upper right, in brown ink, in later hand: indecipherable; at center, in graphite, in later hand: 87 [in box] / Geoffroy / J. Dumonstier / M. Bl. 14 / R-D. 12 / "226 x 126" / this is 217 x 107; in graphite, at lower right, in later hand: B-25, 760 / DFO [?]

Marks and Labels

recto: on mount: Jules Renouvier (Lugt 1525); verso: on mount: Jean Cantacuzène (Lugt 4030)

Provenance

Jules Renouvier (1804-1860), Montpellier (Lugt 1525); Jean Cantacuzène [1863-1934], Bucharest (Lugt 4030)

Associated Names

Cantacuzène, Jean
R. E. lewis
Renouvier, Jules

Bibliography

1969: Zerner, Henri. Ecole de Fontainebleau, gravures.Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1969. English ed. The School of Fontainebleau, etchings and engravings. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969.