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La Vierge et l'enfant Jesus

Maker

(artist)
1575-1616

(etcher)
1575-1616

Title

Date of Production

1612 - 1616

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.4 cm
Width: 21.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.1565

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

The figures of the Virgin and Child are here depicted with graceful and expressive distortion, hallmarks of Mannerism and typical of the work of Jacques Bellange. Few examples of Bellange’s prints survive; this is the only known impression of the first state (version) of this etching, and differs in several notable details from subsequent states. It has been suggested that the faintness of this impression may be due to the fact that ink often takes time to work its way into the lines of a newly etched plate.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Bruegel to Freud: Prints from The Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 19/06/2014-21/09/2014

Jacques Bellange c.1575-1616 Printmaker of Lorraine, London & England, 1997

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin & recto : : see mount for separate sheet containing previous owner's notes on artist

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