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Woman Contemplating a Skull

Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
After: Alessandro di Agostino Casolani (Italian, 1552–1606)
1591

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from six blocks in beige-pink, light pink, medium pink, gray pink, dark gray pink, and black
Dimensions Sheet: 34 x 21.7 cm (13 3/8 x 8 9/16 in.)(trimmed to, or slightly outside of, the borderline at the top and sides, and trimmed to the lower edge of the inscription at the bottom)
Credit Line Gift of William Norton Bullard
Accession Number23.958
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.148.14 i/ii
Marks Verso, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1923, gift of Dr. William Norton Bullard (b. 1853 - d. 1931), Boston, to the MFA (Accession Date: April 1, 1923)