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The Wedding Dance (Le Mariage à la campagne, Plate 2)
French
about 1633
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 33.6 × 42.5 cm (13 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 26.5 × 33.9 cm (10 7/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 26.5 × 33.9 cm (10 7/16 × 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.972
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 0963, only state; Duplessis 1381, only state; IFF 1381; Le Blanc 773
DescriptionVillage wedding scene with musicians and dancing observed by old man in glasses. "A ce que je puis voir avec que mes lunettes..."
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)