[Dressed print after La Vierge à la grappe by Pierre Mignard].

Format:

• Image

Contributor:

• Santeul, Jean de, 1630-1697.
• Daumont, Jean-Francois, publisher.
• Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695.
• Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Art--Early works to 1800.
• Jesus Christ--Art--Early works to 1800.
• Jesus Christ.
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Genre:

• mixed media works
• Mixed media works
• Art
• Early works
• Mixed media works.
• Madonnas -- France.
• Mixed media works -- France.
• mixed media works -- France.

Penn Provenance:

• Fauque, Sieur (inscription) (Lea Library copy)
• Buisson (inscription) (Lea Library copy)
• Simon, Mercier (inscription) (Lea Library copy)

Physical Description:

1 picture : mixed media ; visible image 27 x 19 cm, in frame 31 x 22 cm.

Other Title:

Caption begins: Vierge Sainte, ces fruits de ton fils la figure ...

Place of Publication:

[France ; ca. 1800]

Summary:

Dressed print after La Vierge à la grappe by Pierre Mignard captioned with the French translation of a Latin epigram by Jean de Santeul in glass-fronted wooden box frame. The print was originally distributed by Jean-François Daumont (active 1740-1775) in Paris, France.

Notes:

• Title devised by cataloger from content. Place and approximate date of fabrication from bookseller's description.
• The figures of the Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, the visible portion of their chair and of a table with a basket of fruit have been excised from the original print, partially hand-colored and dressed with multiple colored fabrics, glitter, and foil. A quarter-round, glitter-covered, rayed object (wood or card?) is affixed in upper left corner of frame; a fringed cloth drape, tied back, is affixed in upper right corner of frame. The print's caption has been excised, varnished, and affixed beneath primary image at foot of frame. The whole is mounted on a black painted background in a dark wooden box frame (31 x 22 x 3 cm) fronted with gold-bordered glass. "Probably reglazed and boxframe renewed, original backing preserved"--Leo Cadogan Rare Books.
• Caption below image reads: Vierge Sainte, ces fruits de ton fils la figure, Rendront sous le pressoir un jus delicieux. Et ce Dieu sur la Croix endurant la torture Y versera pour nous tout son sang precieux.
• At foot of caption: Sa vend a Paris chez Daumont.

Local Notes:

• Lea Library copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Leo Cadogan Rare Books.
• Lea Library copy has three early inscriptions on backing of frame: "Le Sr. Fauque Libraire" (possibly the bookseller Fauque of Ligny-en-Barrois, France?), "Buisson" and "Mercier Simon 1834".
• Lea Library copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.

Cited in:

Leo Cadogan Rare Books. Catalogue (May 2018), 10

Related Work:

Mignard, Pierre, 1612-1695. Vierge à la grappe.

OCLC:

1050739686

Online:

The Henry Charles Lea Fund Home Page