Massacre of the Innocents

1714

Bernard Picart

Artist, French, 1673 - 1733

Bernard Picart

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown and gray ink with gray wash over graphite on laid paper with scraping, incised throughout, the verso blackened for transfer

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20 x 26 cm (7 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1972.2.1

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Dury, Corentin. Bernard Picart, 1673 - 1733: Dessinateur de Paris à Amsterdam. Magny-les-Hameaux, Musée de Port-Royal des Champs, 2019, 64, fig. 35.

1974

  • Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts: Sculptures, Drawings, Prints. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1974:217.

Inscriptions

recto: lower left in brown ink in later hand: B. Picart fecit; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

Shield w/ fleur-de-lis

Wikidata ID

Q64537328

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