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The Visit to the Wet Nurse (Le Mariage à la ville, Plate 6)
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 × 35.3 cm (10 5/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Platemark: 27 × 35.3 cm (10 5/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.970
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 0121, only state; Duplessis 1379, only state; IFF 1379; Le Blanc 778
DescriptionMother, nurse (with child), and servants in bedchamber before fire. "La mine de cette accouchée..."
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)