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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1917,1208.2145
Title: Object: Quot victimae in una!
Description: Sacrifice of Jephthah, with the latter standing at centre beside an altar, and looking upwards; his daughter approaches from the left, with several grieving women clinging to her; several figures and soldiers attending the scene Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Antoine Coypel; Print made by: Gaspard Duchange
School/style: French
Production date: 1677-1699
Materials: paper
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 544 millimetres; Width: 715 millimetres
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Curator's comments: The plate is dedicated to Edouard Colbert, who died in 1699; a painting on the same subject was exhibited at the salon in 1699 and in 1704 but it seems that the plate was engraved after a drawing.
Bibliographic references: Wildenstein 1964 / L'oeuvre gravé des Coypel (not described); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (19)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: old testament; sacrifice
Associated names: Representation of: Jephthah; Associated with: Edouard Colbert, Marquess of Villacerf
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.2145

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