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Woman Contemplating a Skull
1591
Medium/Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from four blocks in orange-brown, brown, gray-violet, and black
Dimensions
Sheet: 28.6 x 21.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 9/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline; lacking the inscription below the lower borderline)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1975.466
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch XII.148.14
Marks
Verso, bottom left, stamped in blue ink, the mark of the Brentano-Birkenstock Collection, Vienna and Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 345); verso, lower right, in blue ink, the duplicate stamp of the Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Lugt 686); verso, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)
ProvenanceCabinet Brentano-Birckenstock (founded 1765 by Johann Melchior Birckenstock (1738-1809)), Vienna and Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 345); sold following the death in 1869 of Antonie, Birckenstock's only daughter, wife of Franz Brentano, Frankfurt, Prestel, May 16, 1870 and following days, lot 2738; bought by Meyer for 30 Kr.; Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Lugt 686); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 10, 1975