Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Requires Photography

St. Theresa in Ecstasy

Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)
After: Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini (Italian (Naples), 1598–1680)
1678

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 12.1 × 10.3 cm (4 3/4 × 4 1/16 in.)(trimmed on or slightly within the platemark)
Credit Line Bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft—The Gardner Brewer Collection
Accession NumberM17723
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné IFF 324, a state before i/ii, before any inscriptions, and before the vertical hatching in the sky and some additional work on the clouds at the bottom; Le Blanc 117; Montaiglon 104
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Croft Bequest (Lugt 469)
ProvenanceThe Gardner Brewer Collection; Mrs. Arthur Croft (Caroline A. Brewer)(died 1898); her bequest to the MFA January 1, 1902