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Jupiter's Eagle Bringing Psyche Water from the Styx

Léon Davent (French, active about 1540–1556)
After: Giulio Romano (Italian, c. 1499–1546)
about 1540-1556

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: (semicircular at the top) 20.9 × 40 cm (8 1/4 × 15 3/4 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line Bequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession NumberB1162
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Zerner L.D. 02, only state; Herbet 82; Bartsch 46; IFF (16th cent.) vol. 2, p. 293; Le Blanc (as Léonard Thiry) 41
Marks Verso of backing sheet, lower right-center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Babcock Bequest (Lugt 207); verso of backing sheet, lower right-center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 – d. 1899; Lugt 208), Boston and Paris; 1900, bequest of Babcock to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: June 5, 1900)