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Sleeping Cupid
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, 1503–1540)
Based on: Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, 1480–1527/34)
Based on: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, 1483–1520)
Based on: Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, 1480–1527/34)
Based on: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, 1483–1520)
about 1524 – 1527
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 7.1 x 11.1 cm (2 13/16 x 4 3/8 in.)(trimmed on or slightly within the platemark)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1973.241
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 11, ii (with additional foliage in background)
DescriptionNot only is [Sleeping Cupid] very conservative and engraving-like in handling, but it is also based directly, almost line for line, on the figure of a dead infant in Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving The Massacre of the Innocents. Based on a Raphael design, Marcantonio's print is a particularly crisp example of classic, traditional burin work.
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955; Lugt 3593), Boston; 1955, bequest of Allen to MFA . (Accession Date: May 9, 1973)