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The Descent from the Cross

Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
After: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, 1483–1520)
early 16th century

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from three blocks in light blue-gray, blue-gray, and black
Dimensions Sheet: 34.5 x 27.3 cm (13 9/16 x 10 3/4 in.)(trimmed on the borderlines at the top and right; trimmed within the borderline at the left, and missing the lower margin with the inscription; borderlines apparently added in pen and ink on the left and bottom)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP1682
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.043.22
Marks Verso, bottom left, stamped in red ink, the mark of Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); verso, lower left, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897