PrintsFrench17th-18th century

Christ Child Sleeping

17th-18th century

Artists

Bernard PicartArtist

Guido ReniArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching

Culture

French

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

Image: 8.2 × 17.3 cm (3 1/4 × 6 13/16 in.) Plate: 9.6 × 18.4 cm (3 3/4 × 7 1/4 in.) Sheet: 14.7 × 23.3 cm (5 13/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

Provenance

John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister. Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall

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