Claude Mellan
Saint Joseph
1600-1699
Scroll
Claude Mellan
Saint Joseph
1600-1699
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 470 x 311 mm. (47 x 31.1 cm.)
Plate: 439 x 291 mm. (43.9 x 29.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.2752
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
Montaiglon, Anatole de, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Claude Mellan, Abbeville, Briez, 1856, no. 19. Le Blanc, Charles, Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, Paris: E. Bouillon, 1854-1888, no. 77.
Préaud, Maxime, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des Estampes, Inventaire du fonds français: Graveurs du XVIIe siècle, tome 17: Claude Mellan, Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1988, no. 88, ill. p. 74.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: LwrC in pl.: 'IOSEPH CHRISTI NVTRITIE / PROLEM FOECVNDAM IMPETRA / MARGARETÆ LOTHARINGIÆ / Sereniss.æ Aurelianorum Duci / D.D. C. Mellan'. VERSO: BL: red Claghorn stamp, & (graphite, in diamond): '5592'.
Markings: none - A[heart]C[heart]D & grapes