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The Visit to the New Mother (Le Mariage à la ville, Plate 5)
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: 26.9 × 34.8 cm (10 9/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
Platemark: 26.9 × 34.8 cm (10 9/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.969
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 0120, i/ii; Duplessis 1378, i/ii; IFF 1378, i/ii; Le Blanc 780
DescriptionMother receiving group of women from bed. "Le travail de l'enfant est un mal si nuisible..."
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)