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Samson Slaying the Lion
Israhel van Meckenem (German, about 1440/45–1503)
about 1475
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Platemark: 14.6 x 11 cm (5 3/4 x 4 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 18.5 x 13 cm (7 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 18.5 x 13 cm (7 5/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
William A. Sargent Fund
Accession Number52.1744
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs 005 (I/II); Bartsch 003; Geisberg 7;Hollstein-Koreny 5 (II/III)
State
II [?]
Signed
Signed in plate, left of lower center: . I . M .
Marks
Watermark: small oxhead with coat-of-arms above; verso, collector's stamp in blue ink: [Arenberg Coll., Lugt 567]; in graphite: Vente Brisart.
ProvenanceLouis Euchaire Trosch, Germany; before 1849, Roche-Martin Brisart, Ghent; December 10, 1849, and following days, Brisart sale, Ghent, no. 516, to the Duke of Arenberg; December 11, 1952, purchased from William H. Schab (dealer), New York by the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 1952)