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The Judgment of Paris

Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520–1582)
After: Giovanni Battista Bertani (Italian, 1516–1576)
1555

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 41.9 x 53.1 cm (16 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.)(trimmed on or slightly within the platemark at the top and sides, and with a margin of 18 mm at the bottom on which an inscription from a separate plate has been printed)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP1534
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 60, ii/ii; Boorsch and Lewis 16, iii/iii; Bellini 25, iii/iii (this impression with the inscription at the bottom printed from a separate plate)
Marks Verso, bottom right, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); verso, bottom right, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897