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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R1461
People
Claude Mellan, French (Abbeville 1598 - 1688 Paris)
Title
Sudarium of Saint Veronica, with the Face of the Thorn-Crowned Savior
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Sainte Face
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1649
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/240846

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, sister of John Witt Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
ii/ii
Standard Reference Number
Préaud 21; de Montaiglon 25

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R1461
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Martin Kemp, “Coming into Line: Graphic Demonstrations of Skill in Renaissance and Baroque Engravings” In Sight & insight: essays on art and culture in honour of E.H. Gombrich at 85, ed. John Onians, Phaidon Press Limited (London, 1994), pp. 240-241, repr. as pls. 113-115 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • William B. MacGregor, "The Authority of Prints: An Early Modern Perspective", Art History, Blackwell Publishers (Oxford, UK and Boston, USA, September 1999), vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 389-420, pp. 415-416, repr. as pl. 35 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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