print;
broadside;
thesis engraving
- Museum number
- X,4.277
- Title
- Object: Ivbilatio Trivmphi Virginis Deiparæ Svb Vrbano VIII PP Max
- Description
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A broadside on the triumph of the Virgin; with an etching by Callot showing an allegory, in the foreground a semi-circle of allegorical figures holding inscribed shields, in the centre an allegorical figure surpressing a dragon, in the middle ground the Virgin in a triumphal car, wearing a triple crown, holding a lily and a sphere, surrounded by figures playing music, on both sides groups of damned people captured by devils, in the background a coastal landscape, in the sky putti and allegorical figures, in the centre of the sky a shining heart; at the bottom of the print two eagles supporting a royal coat-of-arms; with engraved Latin title, inscriptions, an text in two columns. (Nancy, Callot:1625)
- Production date
- 1625
- Dimensions
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Height: 552 millimetres
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Width: 364 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The plate is in the Nancy Museum.
The two defendants were André de l'Auge and Etienne Didelot, both Minorite monks (who did not devise the pictorial scheme). The Praeses was God.
The thesis is dedicated to Charles IV and Nicole de Lorraine.
For further impressions from the same plate, see BM1861-7-13-184, BM1861-7-13-185, and 1982-U-4086.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- with no indication of provenance on the verso
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- X,4.277