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Marcolfa Showing Cacasenno a Horse

Giuseppe Maria Crespi (Italian (Bolognese), 1665–1747)
early 18th century

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 28.6 x 20.3 cm (11 1/4 x 8 in.)(irregularly trimmed)
Platemark: 22.7 x 15.4 cm (8 15/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Paul J. Sachs and W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number38.2126
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 39
DescriptionThis impression lacks the inscription "Mattioli f." that appears in the margin, lower right, in the impression illustrated in The Illustrated Bartsch; it may have been abraded out in the plate.
Marks Verso, right center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenancePaul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1878-1965) and W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); their gift to the MFA December 8, 1938