Vestire nudos (Clothe the Naked), from the series The Seven Works of Mercy
Sebastien Bourdon, French, 1616 - 1671
1671
Etching and engraving on wove paper
Overall: 16 15/16 × 23 3/16 in. (43 × 58.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.971.6.4
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower center: IIII Vestire nudos. Job 39.16; lower right: Sebastianus Bourdon Monpeliensis; further inscriptions in Latin and French
Exhibition History
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
Publication History
T. Barton Thurber, "Survival and Revival of the Classical Tradition: Antiquity in Rome from the Baroque Era to the Age of Enlightenment." In T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, pp. 53-54, ill. p. 53, listed p.73.
Provenance
David Tunick, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1971.
Catalogue Raisonne
Robert-Dumesnil, Vol. XI, p. 19, no. 5
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