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Ornament Panel with Two Sphinxes and Two Children Holding Palms
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: 49.5 × 8 cm (19 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)(trimmed on the platemark at the top and bottom, and within the platemark at the sides)
Credit Line
Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number41.249
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind (as Master of the Sforza Book of Hours) V, 79, 10(12); Bartsch (as Zoan Andrea) XIII, 310, 32; 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