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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G8248
People
Simon Vouet, French (Paris 1590 - 1649 Paris)
Title
Holy Family
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1633
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/279578

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 18.8 x 21 cm (7 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Si Voüet in sculp.
  • inscription: yes, lower margin, left and right, printer's ink, engraving, signed: signature, privilege, date: Si Voüet in sculp. Cum Priuilegio Regis / 1633
  • legend: lower margin, center, printer's ink, engraving, Italian: rhyming description of subject: Siede in braccio à la Madra il figlio Dio; / Dona l'augetto à lui guiseppe pio. [Seated in the arm of the Mother the son of God gives the little bird to the pious Joseph.}
  • watermark: grapes in double circle (bearing letters?)
  • stamp: verso, purple ink, with brown ink, stamped, with hand-written accession number: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, stamp: M.F.A. [in oval] 3709 [hand written]
  • stamp: verso, purple ink, stamped: M.F.A. duplicate stamp: DUPLICATE SOLD BY THE / MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
Object Number
G8248
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Michael Cole, ed., The Early Modern Painter-Etcher, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA, 2006), cat. 30, p. 124 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Verification Level

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