To Bury the Dead, from The Works of Mercy
Sébastien Bourdon
1656–57
Medium
Engraving in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 42.2 × 57.5 cm (16 5/8 × 22 11/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
147620
About the Artist
Sébastien Bourdon · 1616–1671
Sébastien Bourdon (1616–1671) was a French Baroque painter of remarkable versatility and restless ambition, whose career carried him from the workshops of Paris to the courts of Rome and Stockholm before he returned to France to become a founding member of one of Europe's most important artistic institutions. Born on 2 February 1616 in Montpellier into a Protestant family, Bourdon was apprenticed ...