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Massacre of the Innocents

Maker

(artist)
1619-1690

(printmaker)
1750-1818

(printmaker)
1726-1788

Title

Massacre of the Innocents

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 40.8 cm
Width: 26.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2930

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 1990-91

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin left & recto : : Peint par Ch. Le Brun. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : Gravee a l'eau forte par D.P. Bertaux //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin right & recto : : et termine par J. Aliamet, Graveur du Roi //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower margin centre & recto : : LE MASSACRE DES INNOCENS / De la Galerie de S.A.S. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. / A.P. D.R / ÉCOLE FRANCOIS. / 1.ER TABLEAU DE CHARLES LE BRUN / PREMIER PEINTRE DU ROI, ...... de 71 ans. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right hand corner & recto : : M. le Niquet Scripsit. //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper right hand corner & recto : Witt Library stamp : WITT LIBRARY //

Inscription: inscription : typed : centre right & verso : : C. LE BRUN / Duke of Orleans Coll. 1788 //

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