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Five Children Dancing
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia (Italian, active c. 1490–1520)
about 1515–1520
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 × 20.1 cm (4 5/16 × 7 15/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
Gift of Amory Coolidge
Accession Number43.1363
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind V, 45, 25; Bartsch XIII, 328, 19; Illustrated Bartsch 2511.031, only state
Signed
Signed, lower right, AVB (monogram).
Marks
Verso, bottom right, stamped in black ink, the mark of the Collection Defer-Dumesnil, Paris (19th cent.)(Lugt 739); verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceCollection Defer-Dumesnil, (late nineteenth/early twentieth century, Paris, Lugt 739), sale of De Brescia mentioned in Lugt: May 17-18 1901, Paris; Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (b. 1863 - d. 1912; cf. Lugt 1429), Boston; by descent to his son, Amory Coolidge (b. 1895 - d. 1952), Boston; December 9, 1943, gift of Amory Coolidge to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1943)