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The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth and the Infant St. John the Baptist

(French, active about 1679)
about 1679
Medium/TechniqueEtching
DimensionsSheet: 20.3 x 27.2 cm (8 x 10 11/16 in.)
Platemark: 16.9 x 16.6 cm (6 5/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession numberB577
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ClassificationsPrints
Description
The collection includes another etching by la Boissière of the same subject, in a very similar representation. The present version (B577) shows a pyramid and a palm tree in the background; the other version (B578) shows a solid stone edifice in the background.
InscriptionsEtched in the plate, lower left, "Dela Biossier. inv."
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock, Boston, Paris (1826-1899); his bequest to the MFA June 12, 1900