Pilate Washing His Hands (Left Half)

Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
After: Giambologna (Jean Boulogne) (Flemish (worked in Italy), 1529–1608)

1585

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in four shades of blue-gray

Dimensions Sheet: 42.5 x 32.3 cm (16 3/4 x 12 11/16 in.)(with the borderline at the bottom; lacking c. 15 mm at the top)

Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number1975.441

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.041.19 (left half); Meyer I, 11 (left half)

Marks Verso, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)

ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 10, 1975