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The Conversion of Saint Paul
Attributed to: Matteo di Giovanni, c. 1430 – 1495
Italian
about 1455-1475
Medium/Technique
Niello
Dimensions
Sheet: 15.3 × 12 cm (6 × 4 3/4 in.)
Platemark: 12.4 × 8.3 cm (4 7/8 × 3 1/4 in.)(rounded at top)
Platemark: 12.4 × 8.3 cm (4 7/8 × 3 1/4 in.)(rounded at top)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP943
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind (Nielli) 276
DescriptionThis is a later impression (probably 18th-century). The plate is in the Bargello, Florence.
Marks
Verso (twice), bottom left and lower left, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall(Lugt 1309); verso, lower right-center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
InscriptionsThere is an inscription in Italian on the verso, attributing the print to Maso Finiguerra.
ProvenanceHenry James Brooke (b. 1771 - d. 1857; cf. Lugt 1324), London; May 23 1853, and following days, Brooke sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 593, for £0.4.6. [see note 1] Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note]. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)
NOTE 1: The print does not bear the mark of the Brooke collection, but the manuscript ledger of Henry Sewall's collection that is preserved in the MFA Archives notes that this print was in that collection.
NOTE 2: Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized in 1897, one year after his death.
NOTE 1: The print does not bear the mark of the Brooke collection, but the manuscript ledger of Henry Sewall's collection that is preserved in the MFA Archives notes that this print was in that collection.
NOTE 2: Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized in 1897, one year after his death.