Title: The Circumcision
Object type: Drawing
Date: mid-17th–early 18th century
Artist:  Gerard de Lairesse 
Artist bio: Dutch, Liège 1641–1711 Amsterdam
Artist nationality: Dutch
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and grayish brown ink, tip of the brush and gray ink, gray wash, red chalk and white heightening
Dimensions: sheet: 7 11/16 x 5 1/16 in. (19.6 x 12.8 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Sotheby's Gift, 2002
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Virgin Mary, term: Jesus, term: Circumcision, term: Priests