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The Queen of Stags

Master of the Playing Cards (German, active in 1435–1455)
about 1435–55

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 13.5 x 8.9 cm (5 5/16 x 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund
Accession Number32.482
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Lehrs 085 (II/II)
State II
Signed Not signed
Marks Recto, lower right corner: [small circle in ink]; verso, in graphite: catalog Fol. [?]; [another annotation in pencil difficult to decipher]
ProvenanceBy 1894, the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg, Gotha, Germany [see note]; May 2-3, 1932, the anonymous "princely collection" (Saxe-Coburg) sale, Boerner, Leipzig, lot 64, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 2, 1932)

NOTE: Max Lehrs, "Der deutsche und niederländische Kupferstich des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts in den kleineren Sammlungen," Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 17 (1894): p. 192, no. 120.