Circe Drinking with the Companions of Ulysses

Circella Drinking

Attributed to: Antonio da Trento (Italian, about 1510–about 1550)
After: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, 1503–1540)

mid 16th century

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from two blocks in gray-green and black (see Note)

Dimensions Sheet: 21.5 x 19.6 cm (8 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline at the bottom, into the borderline at the top, and within the borderline at the sides)

Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number64.1099

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

The tone block used in the first state of Bartsch XII.111.8, as shown in The Illustrated Bartsch, covers much of the print, including the four corners outside of the oval borderline but inside the outer rectangular borderline. However, the tone block used in this impression looks similar to, and may be, one of the tone blocks used in Bartsch XII.111.7, and covers only the same area covered by the line block, with the result that almost all of the background area, including the four corners, is blank.

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.111.8 (see Note)

Marks Recto, bottom right, in pen and black ink, "mae"(?); verso, upper right, in pen and brown ink, the mark of Giuseppe (Joseph) Storck, Milan (1766-1836)(Lugt 2319), 1799; verso, top left, in pen and black ink, the mark of Franz Gawet, Vienna (1762/65-1847)(Lugt 1069), 1822; verso, lower left-center, stamped in blue ink, the initial "E" (not in Lugt); verso, upper right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)

ProvenanceGiuseppe (Joseph) Storck, Milan (1766-1836)(Lugt 2319), 1799; Franz Gawet, Vienna (1762/65-1847)(Lugt 1069), 1822; W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 23, 1964