PrintsFrench17th-18th century

Three Holy Women

17th-18th century

Artists

Bernard PicartArtist

Salvator RosaArtist after

Classification

Prints

Technique

Etching

Culture

French

Century

17th-18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

Image: 11.2 × 9.2 cm (4 7/16 × 3 5/8 in.) Plate: 12.2 × 9.6 cm (4 13/16 × 3 3/4 in.) Sheet: 17.3 × 14.2 cm (6 13/16 × 5 9/16 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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