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Woman Contemplating a Skull

Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
After: Alessandro di Agostino Casolani (Italian, 1552–1606)
1591

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from four blocks in black and three shades of brown
Dimensions Sheet: 28.8 x 21.1 cm (11 5/16 x 8 5/16 in.)(trimmed to or into the borderline on all four sides, and lacking the inscription below the lower borderline)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1975.465
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.148.14
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