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The Sudarium of Saint Veronica, 1649. Engraving in black on buff laid paper.
Engraving in black on buff laid paper · Plate: 43.3 × 31.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Sudarium of Saint Veronica
- Artist
- Claude Mellan French, 1598-1688
- Date
- 1649
- Medium
- Engraving in black on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 43.3 × 31.6 cm (17 1/16 × 12 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43.6 × 31.9 cm (17 3/16 × 12 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- The Charles Deering Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1598–1688
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.