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Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
After: Baldassare Peruzzi (Italian, 1481–1536)
about 1517–18

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from two blocks in yellowish-gray and black
Dimensions Sheet: 30.6 x 23.3 cm (12 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Image (borderline): 30.1 x 22.9 cm (11 7/8 x 9 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.1125
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.133.12, ii/ii
Marks Verso, lower right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)
ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 23, 1964