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To Bury the Dead, from The Works of Mercy
Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616-1671)
1656–57
- Medium
- Engraving in black on cream laid paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 42.2 × 57.5 cm (16 5/8 × 22 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Suzanne Lord Folds Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
One of the founders of the Academy, Sébastien Bourdon was considered one of the finest painters of his day, producing works in the classical vocabulary of Nicolas Poussin. He studied in Rome, worked in Paris and Sweden, and during 1656 and 1657 was called back to his native Montpellier where he executed seven compositions, The Works of Mercy, recalling the Seven Sacraments of Poussin. This scene is the last, depicting Tobias burying the victims of Sennacherib.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
