DrawingsFrench18th century

Herod Returning Christ to Pilate

1714

Artists

Bernard PicartArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and gray and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper, partially incised, adhered to a decorated mount

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

32.3 x 21.2 cm (12 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Provenance

Galerie Jean-François Baroni, Paris, sold; to Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (by 1996; inv. no. D-F-348), sold; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard Norton Memorial Fund, inv. no. 2008.269

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