Art, literature & history
Saint Charles Borromeo Distributing Communion to the Victims of the Plague of 1576 in Milan
1755/1765
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching touched with black ink on laid paper [proof]
- Dimensions
- plate: 49 × 31.5 cm (19 5/16 × 12 3/8 in.) sheet: 51.1 × 33.1 cm (20 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2022.72.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre. Saint Charles Borromeo Distributing Communion to the Victims of the Plague of 1576 in Milan. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Katharine Shepard Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Saint Charles Borromeo Distributing Communion to the Victims of the Plague of 1576 in Milan — Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre. 1755/1765.
Medium: etching touched with black ink on laid paper [proof].
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 49 × 31.5 cm (19 5/16 × 12 3/8 in.) sheet: 51.1 × 33.1 cm (20 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2022.72.3. Katharine Shepard Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.