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Marcus Curtius Plunging into the Chasm


The Death of Marcus Curtius
Lucas Cranach, the Elder (German, 1472–1553)
about 1506–7

Medium/Technique Woodcut
Dimensions Sheet: 31.7 x 23.6 cm (12 1/2 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP18962
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch (relief) 112; Hollstein 106
Signed lower left: LC
Marks watermark [not deciphered]; verso, collector's initials, in black ink: W.S. [William Sharp; Lugt 2650]; collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 18962 [Lugt 1870]
ProvenanceWilliam Sharp (b. 1749 - d. 1824), Manchester, England; Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; November, 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund.