Adoration of the Kings
1619
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper, mounted on blue album sheet
Dimensions
Image: 24 × 20.3 cm (9 1/2 × 8 in.); Plate: 25.7 × 21.3 cm (10 1/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 34 × 26.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.6 × 34.1 cm (18 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
69735
About the Artist
Claude Vignon · 1593–1670
Claude Vignon was born on May 19, 1593, in Tours, France, into a wealthy family, and he died on May 10, 1670, in Paris. He received his initial artistic training in Paris under the Mannerist painter Jacob Bunel, a key figure in the Second School of Fontainebleau. Vignon traveled extensively in his youth, likely visiting Rome as early as 1609–1610 and settling there by 1616–1619 among the French ar...