Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Satyrs Mocking an Ass with Academic Pretentions
Claude Mellan
Sheet (trimmed to platemark): 23.5 x 19 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
Engraving
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2011.1750
Provenance/Ownership History: About 1800, probably acquired by Duke Franz Friedrich Anton von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1750 – d. 1806), Coburg, Germany, and became part of the Graphische Sammlung Veste Coburg (Lugt 451a), Germany (Inventory no. IX,80,98); May 10-15, 1929, Veste Coburg duplicates sale, Boerner, Leipzig, included in lot 1181. November 27, 2003, anonymous sale (Auktion 82), Bassenge, Berlin, lot 5273, sold to James A. Bergquist, Newton, MA; 2011, sold by Mr. Bergquist to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 21, 2011)
Eleanor A. Sayre Fund