Three angels presenting the cross to the Virgin and Christ Child. Etching by Laurent de La Hire, 1639.

  • La Hire, Laurent de, 1606-1656.
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[1639]
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31377i
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Publication/Creation

[Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [1639]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 29 x 22.1 cm

Lettering

In capite libri scriptum est de me, ut facerem voluntatem tuam, deus meus volvi et legem tuam in medio cordis mei. Psalmo 39. Perillustri ac reverendissimo Dn.o D. Nicolao Lumagae St: Petri de Rilleyo apud Filgerias abbati dignissimo D.no de Villers & c. eximio B.me Virginis cultori ac Maecenati suo has Christi delicias obsequii et observantiae ergo offerebat. L. de La Hyre in. & sculp. 1639 cum privilegio Regis. In this state, the name of the dedicator has been erased, leaving the verb "offerebat" without a subject

Edition

[Robert-Dumensil's state III of three, after erasure of the name "Weyen". Traces of the erased lettering are visible.].

Creator/production credits

Dedicated to Nicolas Lumague, abbot of the Augustinian Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Rillé at Fougères in Brittany

References note

A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, Le peintre-graveur français, Paris 1835-1871, vol. 1, pp. 81-82, no. 8 ("La Vierge aux anges")

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Wellcome Collection 31377i

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