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Cain and Abel

Giovanni Gallo (Italian, 16th century)
After: Marco Pino (Italian, about 1525–about 1587)
early 17th–mid 17th century

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in light brown, brown, gray-brown, and black
Dimensions Sheet: 38.5 x 25.1 cm (15 3/16 x 9 7/8 in.)(trimmed to, or slightly into, the borderline)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1986.124
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Not in Bartsch
Marks Verso, bottom right, stamped in gray ink, an unidentified collector's mark; verso, bottom right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)
ProvenanceAn unidentified collector (mark not in Lugt). W. G. Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; 1986, bequest of W. G. Russell Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 26, 1986)