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The Birth of the Baby (Le Mariage à la ville, Plate 3)
French
1633
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.1 × 33.6 cm (10 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.967
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 0118, only state; Duplessis 1376, only state; IFF 1376; Le Blanc 777
DescriptionChildbirth scene in bed chamber. Verses for: "L'Accouchée; La Sage Femme; Le Mary; La Dévote"
Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Bound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Marks
Verso of window mount, bottom left, stamped in yellow-brown ink, the mark of the MFA Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
ProvenanceJohn Evelyn (b. 1620-d. 1706), London. Elizabeth Day McCormick (b. 1873-d. 1957), Chicago; 1944, her gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 8, 1996)