An Old Peasant Woman Riding to Market

Unidentified artist, Italian (Venetian), 16th century
Copied after: Niccolo Boldrini (Italian, about 1500–after 1566)
After: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian (Venetian), about 1488–1576)

1566

Medium/Technique Etching

Dimensions Sheet: 13.9 x 17.9 cm (5 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)

Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number1975.505

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Passavant VI, p. 242, no. 95 (etched copy in reverse)

Marks Verso, upper right, in pen and blue-gray ink, "Collection A. Ollivier 1898" (not in Lugt, but cf. Lugt 1992); verso, bottom right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)

InscriptionsEtched in the plate, bottom left, "1566"

ProvenanceA. Ollivier (cf. Lugt 1992); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (b. 1882 - d. 1955) Boston; September 10, 1975, his bequest to the MFA.