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
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Claude Vignon is one of the most interesting members of a community of 17th-century French artists who traveled to Rome and became attached to the Caravaggesque painter Simon Vouet. In 1619 he produced this etching, his first known original composition, which is thought to have been inspirational to Rembrandt. It is one of only 27 etchings produced by the artist throughout his life.
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...