Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Mercury Presiding over the Arts, (from the Series the Seven Planetary Gods)
1596
Jan Saenredam
After Hendrick Goltzius
Image: 25 x 17.5 cm (9 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Engraving
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2012.372
Provenance/Ownership History: Robert Wheaton (d. 2010) and Barbara Wheaton, Concord, MA; 2012, gift of Barbara Wheaton to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 27, 2012)
Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton