# Adoration of the Kings

- By: Claude Vignon (French, 1593-1670)
- Date: 1619
- Medium: Etching on ivory laid paper, mounted on blue album sheet
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Image: 24 × 20.3 cm (9 1/2 × 8 in.); Plate: 25.7 × 21.3 cm (10 1/8 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 34 × 26.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 47.6 × 34.1 cm (18 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.)
- Culture: France
- Credit line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowment
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/69735)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/77d84d70-a274-203f-bd1a-af42941ae40e/full/843,/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Claude Vignon is one of the most interesting members of a community of 17th-century French artists who traveled to Rome and became attached to the Caravaggesque painter Simon Vouet. In 1619 he produced this etching, his first known original composition, which is thought to have been inspirational to Rembrandt. It is one of only 27 etchings produced by the artist throughout his life.

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