Vanitas (A Figure Grieving at a Classical Tomb)

Benigno Bossi (Italian, 1727–1792)

1766

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Sheet: 32 x 22cm (12 5/8 x 8 11/16in.)
Platemark: 13.3 x 9.5cm (5 1/4 x 3 3/4in.)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Alan J. Dworsky and Suzanne Werber Dworsky

Accession Number1999.59

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Marks Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

InscriptionsEtched in the plate, on pedestal, upper right, "B Bossi / 1766"

ProvenanceJan Johnson Old Master and Modern Prints, Inc., Montreal; from whom purchased March 24, 1999