Les Festes du mois de Mars (March: The Annunciation), 1603

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series Title

Le Sacré Zodiaque (The Sacred Zodiac Divided into Twelve Months)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 18.9 × 12.9 cm (7 7/16 × 5 1/16 in.)

sheet: 29.1 × 20.5 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF (1600), no. 96

Accession Number

2015.44.5

Artists / Makers

Léonard Gaultier (artist) French, 1561 - 1641

Jean Leclerc (publisher) French, c. 1587 - 1633

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in plate: Les Feste du Mois de Janvier.; center in plate: S. Sebastien/le 20/l'Adoration des 3./Roys le 6/S. Genevieue le 3./Le Curconcision de nre S. le; lower left in plate: L. Gaultier/sculpcit; lower center in plate: La Circoncision, et Saincte Geneuiefue,.../Pour vemettre l'année en son cours ancien; lower right in plate: J. le Clerc/excudit.

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S. A., Paris); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1939: IFF (1600), no. 96