Saint Vincent de Paul receiving supplications from mothers; below, a procession approaches a church. Line engraving by L. Cars after himself.

  • Cars, Laurent, 1699-1771.
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1700-1799
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9430i
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Saint Vincent de Paul receiving supplications from mothers; below, a procession approaches a church. Line engraving by L. Cars after himself. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Above, mothers beg Saint Vincent de Paul to intercede for their sick babies, and a cowherd asks him for aid for his sick cow. In the background foxes run off with poultry, watched by agitated people. Below, a processsion enters a church between three mountains. Around the two scenes is a rococo frame

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1700-1799

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1 print : engraving

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Lau. Cars ex Academia regia delineavit et sculp Parisiis

References note

Not found in: Marcel Roux, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1934, vol. III (inventory of works by Laurent Cars)
R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, hors catalogue no. 3061.9

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Wellcome Collection 9430i

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