print
- Museum number
- 1875,0410.459
- Title
- Series: Musée Français
- Description
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Ex-voto, after Philippe de Champaigne; Jansenist nun kneeling and praying next to another nun, sitting on a chair; etched state, proof before letter. c. 1803/09
Etching
- Production date
- 1803-1809 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 325 millimetres
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Width: 434 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- See 1856,0712.494 for finished state.
Painting executed in 1662 and now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris; the painting represents the artist's daughter, Sister Catherine de Sainte-Suzanne (1636-1686), and Catherine-Agnès Arnauld (1593-1671), Mother Superior of the Jansenist convent of Port-Royal; it is an ex voto celebrating the healing of Catherine, cured of paralysis.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0410.459