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The Bride Being Led to Her New House (Le Mariage à la ville, Plate 2)
French
1633
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 33.6 × 42.5 cm (13 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 27.2 × 34.1 cm (10 11/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 27.2 × 34.1 cm (10 11/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.966
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 0117, only state; Duplessis 1375, only state; IFF 1375; Le Blanc 776
DescriptionNewlyweds in bed chamber, preparing to undress, with crowd of people. "la Mariée-Ne soyez pas si diligens..."
Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Marks
Verso, bottom left, stamped in yellow-brown ink, the mark of the MFA Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
ProvenanceJohn Evelyn (b. 1620-d. 1706), London. Elizabeth Day McCormick (b. 1873-d. 1957), Chicago; 1944, her gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 8, 1996)