The Dream of Saint Joseph

1653/1657

Sébastien Bourdon

Artist, French, 1616 - 1671

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.1 × 23.4 cm (7 1/2 × 9 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.7 × 24 cm (7 3/4 × 9 7/16 in.)
    mount: 28.9 × 39.6 cm (11 3/8 × 15 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.113.40

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robert-Dumesnil 1967, no. 22, State undesc

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur français, ou Catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française. Ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris, 1967: no. 22, undesc

2000

  • Thuillier, Jacques. Sébastien Bourdon, 1616 - 1671. Paris, 2000: no. 175, undesc.

Inscriptions

lower center in image: S. Bourdon inv. et sculp. cum privil.; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: belle / Br 263; by later hand, lower left mount in graphite: B. Reischach, p. 29, No. 2338. belle Epr. / P. G. francais I. p. 144. No. 22, Epr. anvant l'ad. de Mariette / 2690: 1; by later hand, lower right on mount in graphite: 1/30

Watermarks

present but unidentified

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