Birth of the Virgin
Louis de Châtillon
1649 - 1734
Medium
etching
Dimensions
418; 496
About this artwork
height 496 mm x width 418 mm
Art Historical Context
**Birth of the Virgin** is a striking etching by Louis de Chillon, created during his active period from 1649 to 1734. Measuring an impressive 496 mm in height by 418 mm in width this print captures the sacred moment of the Virgin Mary's birth, a theme in Christian iconography that celebrates divine origins and maternal joy. Châtillon, a skilled French engraver of the Baroque era, drew on deep religious traditions to depict this scene, likely evoking the intimate domesticity of the event as described in apocryphal texts like the Protoevangelium of James. Etching, the medium here, was a revolu...