G2651: Sudarium of Saint Veronica, with the Face of the Thorn-Crowned Savior
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G2651
- People
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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
- Date
- 1649
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/277807
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Engraving on beige antique laid paper
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
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sheet: 46 x 34.5 cm (18 1/8 x 13 9/16 in.)
image: 43.5 x 31.8 cm (17 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.
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 William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
- Object Number
- G2651
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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]
Exhibition History
- HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2008 - 11/16/2008
- HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/16/2009 - 11/08/2009
- HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010
- Looking Back: The Western Tradition in Retrospect, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/20/2018 - 05/06/2018
- A Colloquium in the Visual Arts , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022
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