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Relieving the thirsty

Relieving the thirsty
(Donner à boire à ceux qui ont soif)
(1635)
from the Oeuvres de miséricorde (Acts of mercy) series (1635)

Medium
etching

Measurements
22.3 × 32.3 cm (image) 25.5 × 32.3 cm (image and text) 26.1 × 33.5 cm (plate) 26.8 × 34.2 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926

Gallery location
Not on display

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Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Paris, France

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Lothe 23 ii/ii; IFF 51; Blum 1022 ii/ii; Duplessis 51 ii/ii

Edition
2nd of 2 states

Printing/Publishing
published by Jean Leblond I, Paris

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: ABoſſe (AB joined) jnv. et fe.
printed in ink l.c.: Donner à boire à ceux qui ont ſoif. / le (…illeg.) (sheet worn)
printed in ink l.l.-l.r.: (four verses of French text, each four lines)

Accession Number
3168-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

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