Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2009–June 2011
Leda and the Swan
about 1503
Monogrammist I.B. with the Bird (Giovanni Battista Palumba)
Sheet: 15 x 9.9 cm (5 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
Engraving
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2010.1308
Provenance/Ownership History: Between the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz (Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England); March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo (Naples, FL); 2010, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011). Print has two collectors stamps on verso, difficult to read.
Gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo