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The Betrayal and Arrest of Christ (from The Passion series, plate 3 of 14)
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
1521
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 11.5 x 7.4 cm (4 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.)
Platemark: 11.5 x 7.4 cm (4 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 11.6 x 7.5 cm (4 9/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
Platemark: 11.5 x 7.4 cm (4 1/2 x 2 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 11.6 x 7.5 cm (4 9/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP8746
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 045; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish) 45 I/II; Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 45 I(a)/III
State
I(a)/III
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, lower left: L 1521
Marks
No watermark; unidentified collector's stamp in blue ink: [initials in a circle, possibly GMC; Lugt 1861]; collector's stamp in red ink: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall, Lugt 1309]; MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection stamp in purple (Lugt 1870), now faded, with accession number in black ink: 8745; mark in blue pencil: 2 [with two slashed through the number]; various notations in graphite: orig; B 45 [45 traced over in pink ]
ProvenanceUnidentified collector (Lugt 1861). Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.