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Venus Lamenting the Death of Adonis
1540s
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 28.1 × 23.9 cm (11 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
George Peabody Gardner Fund
Accession Number63.987
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Zerner J.M. 53, i/ii; Herbet 19; IFF 19; Bartsch (anonymous Fontainebleau masters) 58
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceLucien Goldschmidt (born Brussels 1912, died New York 1992, catalogue 31, no. 47, cover ill.); from whom purchased by MFA, June 19, 1963.