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The Virgin Crowned by Christ

Master of the Die (Italian, active 1530s)
1530s

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 43.3 x 33.1 cm (17 1/16 x 13 1/16 in.)
Platemark: 35.8 x 25.9 cm (14 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of W. S. Dexter
Accession NumberM12327
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ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 09, after ii/ii (a Calcografia di Roma printing)
Marks Recto, just outside the lower right corner of the platemark, the blindstamp of the Calcografia di Roma (Lugt 426e); verso, upper left, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 1868)
InscriptionsEngraved in the lower hatched margin, "[illegible] ex Chalcographia Dominici de Rubeis Heredis Io. Jacobi de Rubeis ad Templ. S. Marie de Pace cum Privil. S. Pontifici"; engraved in the blank lower margin, left, center, and right, "P S F" [Pietro Stefanoni formis]
ProvenanceW.S. Dexter, Boston; his gift to the MFA March 12, 1897