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The Triumph of Caesar: Six Corinthian Pilasters (pilaster no. 4 only)

Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
After: Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
1598

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two or three blocks, in shades of reddish brown
Dimensions Sheet: 38.5 x 7.8 cm (15 3/16 x 3 1/16 in.)(trimmed around the image)
Credit Line Gift of the Children of Dr. James B. Ayer
Accession Number21.10795.1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.101.11, Six Corinthian Pilasters (pilaster no. 4 only); Meyer 32, Six Corinthian Pilasters (pilaster no. 4 only)
DescriptionPrinted on the verso of the three-block chiaroscuro woodcut, "View of Mantua" (Passavant VI, p. 245, no. 112)
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceJames B. Ayer, Boston; to his children, Mrs. John E. Rousmanière, Mrs. Henderson Inches, Nathaniel F. Ayer, Esq., and James B. Ayer (1882-1968, Chief of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School); their gift to the MFA December 31, 1921