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Allegory (upper half): Virtus Combusta
Ignorance and Mercury: An Allegory of Virtue and Vice (upper half)
Allegory (upper half): Virtus Combusta
School of: Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
about 1495-1510
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.5 × 42.4 cm (10 7/16 × 16 11/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark; lacking c. 35 mm at the bottom)
Credit Line
Gift of William Norton Bullard
Accession Number23.952
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind (as School of Mantegna) V, 27, 22 (upper half); Bartsch (as Zoan Andrea) XIII, 303, 16; Illustrated Bartsch (as School of Mantegna) 2506.026, only state
Marks
Verso, bottom center, stamped in black ink, an unidentified mark (not in Lugt); verso, lower right, stamped in violet ink, the mark of James Reiss, Manchester and London (1812-1899)(Lugt 1522); verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of Francis Bullard, Boston (1862-1913)(Lugt 982); verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceJames Reiss (b. 1812 - d. 1899; Lugt 1522), Manchester;Francis Bullard (b. 1862 - d. 1913), Boston, MA; 1913, by inheritance to his brother, Dr. William Norton Bullard (b. 1853 - d. 1931), Boston, MA; April 1, 1923, his gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 1, 1931)