Offer van Gideon, Guillaume Chasteau, after Carlo Maratta, 1645 - 1683

Title(s)

Offer van Gideon

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-42.642

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc 6
• IFF 17e siècle 72

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240
• inscription: ‘Carlo Maratti In.’

Artist

• print maker: Guillaume Chasteau (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Carlo Maratta (possibly)

Dating

1645 - 1683

Material

• paper

Technique

etching / engraving

Measurements

height 239 mm × width 179 mm

What

• the time of Gideon (Jerubbaal) ~ the book of Judges
• Gideon and ten servants destroy the altar of Baal, cut down the grove near it, build an altar to God on the rock, take a bullock and offer a burnt sacrifice

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français : graveurs du XVIIe siècle, dl. 2, p. 299, cat.nr. 72
• Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations : ouvrage destiné à faire suite au Manuel du libraire par J.Ch. Brunet, dl. 1, p. 636, cat.nr. 6