Claude Mellan
Face of Christ on Saint Veronica's Cloth

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Artist Claude Mellan (French, 1598–1688)French, 1598–1688

CultureFrench

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Face of Christ on Saint Veronica's Cloth

Date1649

MediumEngraving on laid paper

DimensionsPlate or block: 16 7/8 × 12 3/8 in. (42.9 × 31.5 cm)
Sheet (irregular): 16 15/16 × 12 1/2 in. (43.1 × 31.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Leslie and Jack S. Blanton, Jr. at Art + Paper 2018

Object number2018.134

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

200 Brown Gallery

On view

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Prints and Drawings

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Provenance[Paul McCarron, New York, by 1988]; Dr. Lewis Coulson, Chicago; [Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints and Drawings LLC, by 2017]; to the MFAH

Exhibition History"Veils," Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, October 6–November 24, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Printed in ink, in plate, bottom center: FORMATVR VNICVS VNA
Recto: Printed in ink, in plate, bottom center: NON ALTER
Recto: Printed in ink, in plate, bottom left: C MELLAN G. P. ET F. IN AEDIBVS
REG.
Recto: Printed in ink, in plate, bottom left: 1649
Verso: bottom edge right, in graphite: MG-88-51-HEE

At center: letters (unidentified). 18th c. paper with letters watermark.

Catalogue raisonnéMontaiglon 374.25 ii/ii; BN XVII.47.21 ii/ii; an eighteenth century impression. The plate was printed well into the 20th century.

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