Plate 58: C'est par ses meurtrissures que nous sommes guéris / It is through his wounds that we are healed (C&R. 111b). Original aquatint, burnisher, and roulette, 1922. 450 impressions for the Miserere, Rouault's masterpiece and one of the most important series of the twentieth century. Signed in the plate at lower right and dated 1922 (there are no pencil-signed proofs). Flora and Kang suggest the relevance of 1 Peter 2: 21-24: "For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps. ‘He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.’ When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten; but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, free from sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed." The Miserere thus end almost where they began—with God's "loving-kindness" and mercy as the one thing that can sustain us in a world fouled by the folly and viciousness of mankind, and saved by the "immense mercy of God." The difference is that we have experienced for ourselves through Rouault's mixed-media intaglio prints this truth in our minds and hearts both. Image size: 580x470mm. Price: Please call or email for current pricing information.