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The Virgin and Child with a Bishop

Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
After: Alessandro di Agostino Casolani (Italian, 1552–1606)
1591

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from three blocks in medium brown, dark brown, and black
Dimensions Sheet: 32.9 x 21.6 cm (12 15/16 x 8 1/2 in.)(trimmed slightly into the image at the top and sides, and slightly into several letters of the inscription at the bottom)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1975.434
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.063.22
Marks Verso of backing sheet, 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 10, 1975