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Aeneas Carrying Anchises

Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
After: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, 1483–1520)
1518

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in four shades of grayish brown
Dimensions Sheet: 52.6 x 37.9 cm (20 11/16 x 14 15/16 in.)(trimmed into, or slightly inside of, the borderline)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.1089
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.104.12
Marks Recto, bottom right, stamped in black ink, the mark of Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, Dresden (1797-1854)(Lugt 971); verso, lower right, in pen and brown ink, the mark of Jean Mariette, Paris (1660-1742)(Lugt 1786a); verso, lower right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen bequest (Lugt 3593)
ProvenanceJean Mariette (b. 1660 - d. 1742), Paris (Lugt 1786a). Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (b. 1797 - d. 1854), Dresden (Lugt 971). W.G. Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; 1964, bequest of W. G. Russell Allen to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 23, 1964)