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The Wise Virgins Resting by the Fireplace
French
about 1635
Object Place: France
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 33.6 × 42.5 cm (13 1/4 × 16 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 25.9 × 33.4 cm (10 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Platemark: 25.9 × 33.4 cm (10 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection
Accession Number44.912
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Blum 1015, only state; Duplessis 44, only state; IFF 44; Le Blanc 86
DescriptionBound in Bosse book, Oeuvre Gravé.
Marks
Verso, 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)