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Title sheet to the suite Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets


Title sheet to Dessins des meilleurs peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne, et des Pays-Bas, tirés de divers célebres Cabinets.
Johann Theophilus Prestel (German, 1739–1808)
Johann Georg Sturm (German, 1742 – 1793)
German
1782

Medium/Technique Engraving
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK273
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

InscriptionsIn plate: Dessins des meilleurs peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pays-Bas, Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets. Gravés d'après les Originaux de même grandeur par Jean Théophile Prestel. Peintre et Membre de l´Académie des Beaux-Arts de Düsseldorf … 1782. / J. G. Sturm, sc.
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)

NOTE:
Koehler was the first curator of prints at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited the majority of his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.