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Venus and Cupid
Niccolo Boldrini (Italian, about 1500–after 1566)
After: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian (Venetian), about 1488–1576)
After: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian (Venetian), about 1488–1576)
1566
Medium/Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut, line block only
Dimensions
Sheet: 31.2 x 23.4 cm (12 5/16 x 9 3/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline)
Credit Line
Gift of the Children of Dr. James B. Ayer
Accession Number21.10815
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch XII.126.29; Le Blanc 15 and 31
Marks
Verso, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceDr. James Bourne Ayer (b. 1849 - d. 1910), Boston; by inheritance to his children, Mary Farwell (neé Ayer) Rousmanière (b. 1878 - d. 1935), NY, NY, Nathaniel Farwell Ayer (b. 1879 - d. 1948), Boston, Dr. James Bourne Ayer (b. 1882 - d. 1963), Boston, and Elizabeth (neé Ayer) Inches (b. 1891 - d. ?); December 31, 1921, their gift to the MFA.