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Virgin with Sleeping Child

Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Publisher: Hieronymus [Jerome] Wierix (Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 8.6 x 6.4 cm (3 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 9.8 x 7.1 cm (3 7/8 x 2 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP6852
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 590; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 463
Signed in box below image: Hieronymus Wierx fecit et excud.
Marks verso, in graphite: 590; collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 6852
Inscriptionsin plate, in box below image: Ecce tu pucher es Dilecte mi, et/decorus: lectulus noster floridus. Cant. 1.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897