The Virgin and Child seated on a pedestal at center, to the right a monk offers a flower, and in the foreground a saint kneels before them while Saint Lawrence rests his hands on a gridiron; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Pietro Antonio de' Pietri

Etching by Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, Comte de Caylus, woodcut by Nicolas Le Sueur.

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  • Title: The Virgin and Child seated on a pedestal at center, to the right a monk offers a flower, and in the foreground a saint kneels before them while Saint Lawrence rests his hands on a gridiron; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Pietro Antonio de' Pietri
  • Artist: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus (French, Paris 1692–1765 Paris)
  • Artist: Nicolas Le Sueur (French, 1691–1764)
  • Artist: After Pietro Antonio de' Pietri (Italian, Cremia 1663–1716 Rome)
  • Date: ca. 1729
  • Medium: Aquatint imitating a chiaroscuro woodcut printed in green over etching
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 21 in. × 15 5/16 in. (53.4 × 38.9 cm)
    Plate: 16 9/16 × 9 9/16 in. (42 × 24.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960
  • Object Number: 60.708(136)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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