The Annunciation to the Virgin. Engraving by L. Desplaces after Louis de Boullogne the younger.

  • Boulogne, Louis, 1654-1733.
Date:
[between 1710 and 1719?]
Reference:
2952341i
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Description

Left, the Virgin kneels at a prie-dieu on which is a scroll inscribed with characters supposed to be Hebrew. Right, Gabriel descending on a cloud points up to the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove

Publication/Creation

[Paris], [between 1710 and 1719?]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image and border 54.8 x 38.1 cm

Contributors

Lettering

The lettering recorded in the Inventaire du fonds français, loc. cit.: Annuit, et Virgo conceptum numen adorat. Excellentissimo nobililismoque viro D. D. Ludovico Antonio de Gondrin duci d'Antin, Francioe Pari [etc.] dicat et consecrat Ludovicus Boulogne. Peint par L. Boulogne le jeune dans la Chapelle du Roy à Versailles. L. Desplaces sculpsit

References note

Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1951, tome VII, p. 76, no. 9

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2952341i

Reproduction note

In reverse after a painting by Louis de Boullongne the younger for the chapel of Versailles in 1710

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