Le tableau de la Croix representé dans les ceremonies de la Ste. messe : ensemble le tresor de la deuotion aux soufrances de N.re S. I.C. : le tout enrichi de belles figures
A 1652 Paris devotional book by Jean Colin with engravings after Guilliam de Gheyn, published by François Mazot, meant for readers meditating on the Mass as a re-enactment of Christ's Passion. Each small framed plate pairs a priest at the altar with a vision of the Passion in a cloud above him, captioned in French and Latin. For a designer, the plates offer tidy compositions of a central figure with a separate scene floating above, plus the checkered floors and stone columns of 17th-century church interiors.
