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Hercules Battling Centaurs at the Wedding of Pirithous
Gabriel Salmon (French, active 1504–1542)
about 1528
Medium/Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 19.6 × 14.5 cm (7 11/16 × 5 11/16 in.)(trimmed to, or slightly into, the borderline)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number63.2866
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
IFF 9 (2); Nagler 4; Kentauren, Lenz 18; Hippodamia, Bernard (Tory) 6
Description
Marks
Verso, bottom left, stamped in black ink, the mark of the British Museum (Lugt 300); verso, lower left, in brown ink, the duplicate stamp of the British Museum (Lugt 305); verso, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Lugt 1943); verso, lower right, in brown ink, the duplicate stamp of the Metropolitan Museum (Lugt 5212); verso, 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)