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SS Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier
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Allegory in Honor of the Jesuit Missionaries
SS Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier
Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)
about 1624-1636
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 29.2 × 35 cm (11 1/2 × 13 3/4 in.)(trimmed within the platemark; lacking large parts of the upper corners)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft—The Gardner Brewer Collection
Accession NumberM17705
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
IFF 083, only state; not in Le Blanc; Montaiglon 78
Marks
Verso of backing sheet, center, stamped in violet ink (twice), the mark of the MFA Croft Bequest (Lugt 469)
ProvenanceThe Gardner Brewer Collection; Mrs. Arthur Croft (Caroline A. Brewer)(died 1898); her bequest to the MFA January 1, 1902