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Columbia de Tofaninis

Cornelis Bloemaert (Dutch, 1603–1684)
After: Giambattista Ramacciotto

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 27.3 x 20.8 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 28.2 x 22 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Washington Irving Jenkins
Accession NumberM26752
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Le Blanc 260
Description
Signed signed
Marks Verso, Lugt 282 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and in graphite: 26752
Verso: unidentified mark (Museum of Fine Arts, ____ Bequest and in graphite 26752)
InscriptionsIn plate, beneath image:
Columba De Tofaninis/
Ord S Francisci Sanctimonialis
Obi Senis a D MDCLV AET LXIX
Io: Bapt. Ramacciottus Senensis delineavit /
Cornelis Bloemaert Vltrajectin sculpsit Romae

In brown ink, verso, u.c: Lugt 1588 [with the date 1662] (Pierre Mariette 1634-1716 Paris)
In graphite, verso, b.c.: Cornelis Bloemaert/Columba de Tofaninus/ Le Bl 260
Provenance1662, Pierre Mariette (b. 1634 - d. 1716; Lugt 1588), Paris. By 1916, Washington Irving Jenkins (b. 1848 - d. 1916; Lugt 4831), Clinton, MA; 1917, bequest of Jenkins to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: August 1, 1917)