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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)
about 1533–50

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in black and three shades of gray
Dimensions Sheet: 32.5 x 44.3 cm (12 13/16 x 17 7/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.1113
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.125.27, ii/ii
DescriptionSee drawing at Chatsworth by Pordenone. After facade of Palazzo d'Anna, Venice, frescoed by Pordenone about 1533
Marks Verso, bottom left, stamped in blue-green ink, the mark of the Cabinet Brentano-Birkenstock, Vienna and Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 345); verso, right center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (Lugt 3593)
ProvenanceCabinet Brentano-Birkenstock, Vienna and Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 345); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 23, 1964