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Ornament Panel with a Child Riding a Triton
Giovanni Pietro da Birago (The Master of the Sforza Book of Hours) (Italian, active c. 1490 – 1513)
about 1490-1513
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 52.9 × 7.8 cm (20 13/16 × 3 1/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number41.239
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind (as Master of the Sforza Book of Hours) V, 79, 10(01); Bartsch (as Zoan Andrea) XIII, 306, 21; Illustrated Bartsch ascribes to Giovanni Pietro da Birago (The Master of the Sforza Book of Hours)(see comment under 2509.035)
Marks
Verso, bottom left, stamped in dark blue ink, the mark of Count Gregory Sergeievitch Stroganoff, Rome (1829-1910)(Lugt 550); verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceWilliam G. Russell Allen (1882-1955, Boston); by whom given to MFA April 10, 1941