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An Old Man Reading the Newspaper


Vieillard lisant la gazette
Jacques Dassonville (French, 1619–1670)
about 1650-1670

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 8.1 x 9 cm (3 3/16 x 3 9/16 in.)(trimmed on the platemark, or with thread margins in places)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP4418
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robert-Dumesnil 25, only state; IFF 25; Le Blanc 25
Marks Verso, lower left, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(cf. Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897