Art, literature & history
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
1613/16
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching with burin printed in black on off white laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 46.2 × 35.4 cm (18 1/4 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 47 × 35.8 cm (18 9/16 × 14 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1940.945
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacques Bellange. The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy, 1613/16. Inventory 1940.945. Jacques Bellange; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/39368. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Existing creator authority Q874658 explicitly identifies Chicago artist 40436 and independently matching NGA constituent 2370. Local biography years remain None / None; Chicago numeric person fields are 1575 / 1616, while its object display is 'Jacques Bellange\nFrench, c. 1575-1616'. NGA date wording 'French, c. 1575 - 1616' remains separate source evidence. No biography field or creator link is rewritten. The exact existing physical object, inventory, date interval and unique native artist role were individually reviewed.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy — Jacques Bellange. 1613/16.
Medium: Etching with burin printed in black on off white laid paper. Dimensions: Plate: 46.2 × 35.4 cm (18 1/4 × 13 15/16 in.); Sheet: 47 × 35.8 cm (18 9/16 × 14 1/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Jacques Bellange was among the most original artists at the court of Lorraine, based 150 miles northeast of Paris in the city of Nancy. Few of his paintings have survived, however, and he is appreciated today primarily for his drawings and etchings.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.