Print Description
Subject: Antique Master Print, titled: ”La Penitence.” – (Penitence). During the dinner at the house of Simon the Leper (Simon the Pharisee) at Bethany, the sinner Mary wipes Christ”s feet with her hair, after anointing his head and feet with expensive oil.
Condition: Good, given age. Trimmed at or near plate marks. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge type with chainlines) paper.
Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 21.5 x 16.5 cm. The image size is ca. 20.5 x 14.5 cm.
Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 8.5 x 6.5 inch. The image size is ca. 8.1 x 5.7 inch.
Part Number: 66523
Location: PCO-C3-06
Description: Source unknown, to be determined. Ref: IconClass 73D132.
Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘D. Bertaux and R. de Launay.’ after ‘Nicolas Poussin’. Etcher: Jean Duplessis-Bertaux (French; 1747-1819) was a very active etcher in Paris in the late 18th. Century. He made many depictions of the French Revolution. Engraver: Robert De Launay / Delaunay (1749-1814) was a French engraver. Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was the leading French painter of the classical French Baroque style.
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