Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
The Great Lion
1590
Jacob (Jacques) de Gheyn II
Trimmed within platemark Image: 26.2 x 34.3 cm (10 5/16 x 13 1/2 in.)
Platemark: 27.3 x 34.9 cm (10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
Engraving
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2012.115
Provenance/Ownership History: Comte Octave Edouard de Behague (b. 1827/1828 – d. 1879; Lugt 2004), Paris. Jules Gerbeau (d. 1906; Lugt 1165), Paris. April 2, 1998, anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, sold to Hill-Stone, Inc., New York; 1998, sold by Hill-Stone to Robert Wheaton, Cambridge, MA; by descent to his widow, Barbara Wheaton, Cambridge; 2011, sold by Barbara Wheaton to Hill-Stone, Inc.; 2012, sold by Hill-Stone to the MFA. (Accession date: April 25, 2012)
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard