About the Artwork
Infant Christ and Saint John Playing with a Lamb
between 1632 and 1650
Peter Paul Rubens (Artist) Flemish, 1577-1640 the Elder Galle Cornelis (Artist) Flemish, 1576-1650
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 13 1/4 × 17 5/8 inches (33.7 × 44.8 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 17 3/4 inches (34.3 × 45.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund
F78.13
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate below image: [one line in Latin] Inscribed, lower left: P. P. Rubbens delin. Inscribed, lower right: Corn. Galle excudit.
Provenance
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Exh. cat., Portland Art Museum. Portland, 1956, pp. 18-19, no. 6.
From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 11.
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the Elder Galle Cornelis; after Peter Paul Rubens, Infant Christ and Saint John Playing with a Lamb, between 1632 and 1650, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund, F78.13.
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