A Farmer and His Family at Lunch (Pastorales, Plate 13)

Claudine Bouzonnet Stella (French, 1636–1697)
After: Jacques Stella (French, 1596–1657)

1667

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving

Dimensions Sheet: 24.5 × 31.4 cm (9 5/8 × 12 3/8 in.)(trimmed on the platemark, or with thread margins in places)

Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock

Accession NumberB3415.14

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné from IFF 100-116, ii/ii; from Le Blanc 20

DescriptionSee also reverse copies published by Gerard Valck (Netherlandish, 1651–1726), B3562 15/15, Hollstein 28-42

Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (b. 1826-d. 1899), Boston, Paris; 1899, his bequest to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)