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Christ on the Cross, with the Virgin, St. Mary Magdalen, St. John, and St. Jerome

about 1480–1500

Medium/Technique Fine Manner engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 27.6 × 18.6 cm (10 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark; torn irregularly at the lower right)
Credit Line Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number28.1093
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind A.I.81
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceProbably about 1500, added to a bound collection of prints known as Codice Trivulziano 2143 (fol. 51) [see note 1]. By 1818, Marchese Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (b. 1776 – d. 1831), Milan; by descent to his great-grandson, Luigi Alberico Trivulzio (b. 1868 – d. 1938), Milan; March 1928, the codex was sold by Luigi Alberico Trivulzio and the prints dispersed. 1928, sold by P. and D. Colnaghi, London, to the MFA for $8735 [see note 2]. (Accession Date: October 1, 1928)

NOTES: [1] On the history of the codex, see Alessia Alberti, “Alle origini del collezionismo di stampe. Un esempio del tempo di Leonardo: il codice Trivulziano 2143,” Rassegna di Studi e di Notizie 2018-2019, pp. 287-334. [2] Price paid for MFA accession nos. 28.1093-1094.