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Massacre of the Innocents

Massacre of the Innocents
 (1617-1642)

Medium
etching
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1925
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
etching
Measurements
6.9 × 17.3 cm (image) 7.2 × 17.5 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark) 8.5 × 18.9 cm (support)
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
IFF 108 or 109
Printing/Publishing
published by Jean Le Blond I, Paris
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.c.: P Brebiette fec (…illeg.)
printed in ink l.l.: Aúec priuilege
printed in ink l.r.: Le Blond excud
Accession Number
1461-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1925
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Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Religion and Mythology Violence
Subjects (specific)
deaths disasters Flight into Egypt (New Testament narrative) infants massacres mothers religious characters warriors

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