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The Adoration of the Magi
Cristofano di Michele Martini, called il Robetta (Italian, 1462–after 1534)
about 1510-1520
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 30.2 × 27.8 cm (11 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in honor of Malcolm Rogers
Accession Number2014.1718
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind D.II.10; Bartsch XIII, 396, 6; Illustrated Bartsch 2521.010, only state; Le Blanc 11
Marks
Verso, lower left, stamped in brown ink, the mark of Friedrich Quiring, Eberswalde (b. 1886)(Lugt 1041c); verso, lower left, stamped in black ink, the mark of Edgar F. Paltzer, Basel (1910-1993) and Elizabeth Charlotte Paltzer, New York and Basel (1916-1990)(Lugt 4262); verso, lower left, stamped in black ink, the mark of Edgar H. Paltzer, Zurich (b. 1956) and Gabriele M. Paltzer-Lang, Zurich (b. 1958)(Lugt 4264); verso, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Naples, Florida; 2014, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 29, 2014)