The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Saints

Alessandro Gandini (Italian, active about 1550–1600)
Possibly after: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, 1503–1540)

late 16th century

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from three blocks in three shades of brown (the borderline appears to have been strengthened in pen and black ink)

Dimensions Sheet: 36.3 x 24.6 cm (14 5/16 x 9 11/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline)

Credit Line Gift of W. S. Dexter , by exchange

Accession NumberM21320

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.065.25

Marks Recto, bottom left, stamped in black ink, the mark of Joannes Michiel Rysbrack, Antwerp, London (Lugt 1912); verso, left center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

ProvenanceJoannes Michiel Rysbrack (b. 1693 - d. 1770; Lugt 1912), Antwerp and London. Henry Studdy Theobald, Stuttgart. H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart; from whom purchased January 1, 1910