The Massacre of the Innocents
1540s(?)
Artist, French, 1515 - 1565 or after
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Purchased as the Gift of Robert B. Loper
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Dimensions
sheet: 31.1 × 41.3 cm (12 1/4 × 16 1/4 in.), trimmed within platemark
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Accession
2014.57.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch, XIV, no. 21, copy A, State ii/ii (or of iii?)
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Unidentified private collector (cipher on verso, not in Lugt). (sale, Christie's London, 3 December 2013, no. 53, as "After Baccio Bandinelli); (via Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2013 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2018
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, no.
Bibliography
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: no. 21, copy A, ii/ii(or iii?)
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: Ant Lafrery; on scroll at right: bacius / fiorentinus / SR
Watermarks
fleur-de-lys in circle under coronet (see Briquet 7111-13, Italy 1544/1575)
Wikidata ID
Q77006245