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Armida Carrying the Body of Rinaldo

Guillaume Chasteau (French, 1635–1683)
After: Nicolas Poussin (French (active in Rome), 1594–1665)
Published by: Guillaume Chasteau (French, 1635–1683)
about 1660-1680

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 44.3 × 50.7 cm (17 7/16 × 19 15/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB956
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints
This is a very late impression, on wove paper, published by Charles Levasseur (1734-1816). The impression bears the inscription "a Paris chés [sic] le Vasseur Graveur rue des Mathurins.", and is therefore a second state.

Catalogue Raisonné IFF 38, only state (see Note); Le Blanc 44
Marks Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Babcock Bequest (Lugt 207); verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)