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The Child Asleep (from the Infancy of Jesus series)

(Netherlandish, about 1553–1619)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsPlatemark: 10 x 6.5 cm (3 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 12.5 x 8.4 cm (4 15/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession numberP6833
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ClassificationsPrints
Inscriptionsin plate, in box below image, lower left: Dormi IESV, Mater ridet/Quae tam dulce somnum videt,/Dormi IESV blandule.; lower right: Si non dormis Mater ploret/Inter fila canaus orat,/Blande veni Somnule.
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall (1816-1896, New York); from whom purchased by the MFA November 1897
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