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Bacchanal with Silenus
Unidentified artist, Italian, 15th century
Or: Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Copied after: Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
Or: Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
Copied after: Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
15th century
about 1500-1525
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 16.1 × 23.5 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 14.5 x 22 cm (5 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Platemark: 14.5 x 22 cm (5 11/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of William Norton Bullard
Accession Number23.946
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind (as anonymous artist) V, 13, 3b; Bartsch (as Monogrammist PP) XIII, 241, 20, Copy 2, and XIII, 357, 2; Illustrated Bartsch (as anonymous artist) 2506.007 C2
Marks
Verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of Francis Bullard, Boston (1862-1913)(Lugt 982); verso, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceDr. William Norton Bullard (b. 1853 - d. 1931), Boston, MA; April 1, 1923, his gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 1, 1931)