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Herculs and the Nemean Lion

Gabriel Salmon (French, active 1504–1542)
about 1528

Medium/Technique Woodcut
Dimensions Sheet: 19.6 × 14.7 cm (7 11/16 × 5 13/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number63.2862
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné IFF 9 (1); Nagler 1; Lenz 3; Bernard (Tory) 1
Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1963, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: December 30, 1963)