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Ornament Panel with Four Children with a Cat and a Dog
Giovanni Pietro da Birago (The Master of the Sforza Book of Hours) (Italian, active c. 1490 – 1513)
about 1490-1513
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 53.6 × 8.9 cm (21 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)(trimmed on or slightly within the platemark)
Credit Line
Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number41.246
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind (as Master of the Sforza Book of Hours) V, 79, 10(09); Bartsch (as Zoan Andrea) XIII, 309, 29; Illustrated Bartsch ascribes to Giovanni Pietro da Birago (The Master of the Sforza Book of Hours)(se 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