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Leda and the Swan
Master I B with the Bird (Giovanni Battista Palumba) (Italian, active 1500–1520)
about 1503
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 15.4 × 10.3 cm (6 1/16 × 4 1/16 in.)
Platemark: 15 × 9.9 cm (5 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Platemark: 15 × 9.9 cm (5 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Accession Number2010.1308
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind (Master I B with the Bird) 9, ii/ii; Bartsch (as Nicoletto da Modena) XIII,280,46; Illustrated Bartsch 2507.004, ii/ii (as Master I B with the Bird, reworked by Nicoletto da Modena)
DescriptionReworked by Nicoletto da Modena. active 1490s-c. 1520
Marks
Verso, bottom left, stamped in black ink, an unidentified mark (not in Lugt); verso, lower right-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA and Naples, FL; 2010, year-end gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)