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Giuseppe Niccolò Rossigliani, called Niccolò Vicentino (Italian, active about 1510–1550)
After: Giovanni Antonio de Sachis, called "Il Pordenone" (Italian, about 1484–1539)
Formerly attributed to: Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
Formerly thought to be after: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, 1503–1540)
After: Giovanni Antonio de Sachis, called "Il Pordenone" (Italian, about 1484–1539)
Formerly attributed to: Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
Formerly thought to be after: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, 1503–1540)
about 1533–50
Medium/Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in four shades of red-brown
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.8 x 42 cm (10 9/16 x 16 9/16 in.)(trimmed into the image)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.1112
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch XII.125.27, indeterminate state (the lower part of the print is trimmed off)(probably ii/ii, as the arm of the scales prints without the dark block (compare to 64.1110 and 64.1113))
DescriptionSee drawing at Chatsworth by Pordenone.
After facade of Palazzo d'Anna, Venice, frescoed by Pordenone about 1533.
After facade of Palazzo d'Anna, Venice, frescoed by Pordenone about 1533.
Marks
Verso, upper right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (Lugt 3593)
ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 23, 1964