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

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

1 print : etching ; platemark 29 x 22.1 cm

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

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

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

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

Wellcome Collection 31377i