Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, weeps blood while praying for the departure of plague from Milan in 1576. Engraving by G. Edelinck after Charles Le Brun.

Ce vend a Paris : chez P. Drevet avec privil. du Roy, [between 1600 and 1699?]

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 55.3 x 40.6 cm

Saevit dira lues; et resti colla revinctus, Et tardus plagis Carolus orat opem. Respirate greges; quas mixto sanguine pastor dat lacrymas, vestri sunt medicina mali. Illustrissimo viro Carolo Le Brun equiti Regis pictorum Coryphaeo, S.ti Caroli effigiem ab ipso coloribus expressam aere coelebat et offerebat G. Edelinck. I.C.S.I. ; C. Le Brun pinxit. G. Edelinck sculp. Cum pr. Regis. Translation of lettering: The terrible disease rages, and, with his neck bound with a rope, Charles prays for help, slowed down by the blows. Flocks, breathe a sigh: the tears which the shepherd gives mixed with blood are the medicine of your ills" (followed by dedication)

L. Réau, Iconographie de l'art chrétien, Paris 1957, vol. III, pp. 298, 300

Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des estampes, Tome IV, Paris 1961, p. 62, Gérard Edelinck no. 353

Wellcome Collection 646792i

After: painting by Le Brun in the church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, Paris (see Réau, loc. cit.)