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Frieze of The Triumph of Ceres with Sea Creatures and Cupids

Unidentified artist, French, 17th century
Published by: René Guerineau (French, active 1635–about 1660)
about 1635-1660

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 13.2 × 37.8 cm (5 3/16 × 14 7/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line Gift of Anne Blake Smith
Accession Number1982.272
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Berlin Ornament Katalog 1811
DescriptionTwo putti bearing baskets riding a pair of lion-headed sea creatures; putto at left, winged nymph ? at right; to right.
Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsInsc.: Guerineau excud avec Privilege du Roi.
ProvenanceAnne Blake Smith (b. 1916-d. 1997); 1982, her gift to the MFA (Accession Date: April 4, 1982)