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Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
After: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, 1483–1520)
early 16th century

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from two blocks in green and dark brown
Dimensions Sheet: 26.9 x 22.2 cm (10 9/16 x 8 3/4 in.)(trimmed to the edge of the image)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.1074
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.089.6, Copy [B] (initials BVI partially visible)
Marks Recto, upper right, in pen and black ink, the mark of Pierre Mariette II, Paris (1634-1716)(Lugt 1789), 1660; verso, bottom left-center, in brown ink, the duplicate stamp of the Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5g); verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)
ProvenancePierre Mariette II, Paris (1634-1716)(Lugt 1789), 1660; W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 23, 1964