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Prosperpina Giving Psyche the Vase of Beauty for Venus
1540s
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 21.7 × 39.9 cm (8 9/16 × 15 11/16 in.)(with 3-4 mm margin at the bottom; trimmed within the platemark around the semicircular top)
Credit Line
Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1518
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
cf. Bartsch (anonymous Fontainebleau masters) 74
Marks
Verso, lower left, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Babcock Bequest (Lugt 207); verso, lower left, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (1826-1899, Paris, Lugt 208); by whom given to MFA June 12, 1900