Turkish Child Being Taken to be Circumcised, 1714

  • Gerard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, French, 1671-1716
  • sheet size (sight measurement): 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. 36.8 x 26.0 cm plate mark: 14 x 9 7/8 in. 35.6 x 25.1 cm

Bequest of Jerome I. Smith

F81.262

Inscribed in margin lower right: J. Haussard sculp. Title inscribed in margin center: Enfant Turc | que l'on mene à la Circoncision. Monogram inscribed in margin left: B Inscribed in margin lower right: 44. Inscribed in margin lower right: Avec Privil. du Roi.

Gerard Jean-Baptiste Scotin, Turkish Child Being Taken to be Circumcised, 1714. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Jerome I. Smith, F81.262.