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The Triumph of Galatea
1729
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 42.6 × 62.1 cm (16 3/4 × 24 7/16 in.)(with 9 mm margin at the top, 6 mm margins at the sides, and trimmed within the platemark at the bottom)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP4729
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Meyer 59 (an undescribed impression before letters); Le Blanc 105
Marks
Verso, bottom left, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); verso, lower right, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
InscriptionsIn bottom margin, in pen and brown ink, left, "Carle Maratte.", center, "Galathée", right, "Gravé par J. Audran."
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816-d. 1896; cf. Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall; 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see Note 1]. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)