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Ornament Panel with a Nereid and Two Children Playing Musical Instruments

about 1490-1513

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 53.5 × 8.7 cm (21 1/16 × 3 7/16 in.)(trimmed on or within the platemark)
Credit Line Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number41.240
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind (as Master of the Sforza Book of Hours) V, 79, 10(02); Bartsch (as Zoan Andrea) XIII, 307, 22; Illustrated Bartsch ascribes to Giovanni Pietro da Birago (The Master of the Sforza Book of Hours)(see comment under 2509.035)
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceWilliam G. Russell Allen (1882-1955, Boston); by whom given to MFA April 10, 1941