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Time Clipping the Wings of Cupid

(French, 1594–1649)
(French, active about 1638–1669)
Medium/TechniqueEtching and engraving
DimensionsSheet: 27.6 × 18 cm (10 7/8 × 7 1/16 in.)(with 2 mm margin at the top; trimmed on the platemark on the other three sides)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession numberB3001
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (b. 1826-d. 1899), Boston, Paris; 1900, his bequest to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)
Unidentified artist, French, 17th century
about 1660-1700
Unidentified artist, French, 17th century
about 1633-1660
Frieze of Nereids and Tritons
Unidentified artist, French, 17th century
about 1635-1660