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The Entombing of Christ by Angels

Lodovico Carracci, Artist Nicolas, The Elder Pitau, Artist
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The Entombing of Christ by Angels

1668

Lodovico Carracci (Artist) Italian, 1555-1619 Nicolas, The Elder Pitau (Artist) French, 1632-1671

Engraving in ink on laid paper

Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 20 7/8 × 16 1/2 inches (53 × 41.9 cm)

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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S872

This work is in the public domain.

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Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower right: Tabulam in are expressit | N. Pitau Belga. Inscribed, lower left: Ex tabula Ludovico Carracii manu | depicta apud Raphaelem du Fresne. Inscribed, lower center: Quis talia cernens temperet a lacrymis [reversed question mark] Inscribed, center bottom edge: A Paris Chez Van Merle, Rue St. Jacques a la Ville d'Anvers; avec Priuil. du Roy. 1668.

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September 1887, C. J. Meyer (Carlsbad, probably California, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps [Harriet J.]

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Nicolas, The Elder Pitau; after Lodovico Carracci, The Entombing of Christ by Angels, 1668, engraving in ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S872.

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