Diogenes

Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
After: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, 1503–1540)

mid 1520s

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in light gray-brown and three shades of brown

Dimensions Sheet: 48 x 35.1 cm (18 7/8 x 13 13/16 in.)(with thread margins around the image at the top and sides, and trimmed slightly into the image at the bottom)

Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number64.1086

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.100.10

Marks Recto, bottom right, stamped in black ink, the mark of Friedrich August II, King of Saxony, Dresden (1797-1854)(Lugt 971); verso, right center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (Lugt 3593)

ProvenanceFriedrich August II, King of Saxony, Dresden (1797-1854)(Lugt 971); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 23, 1964