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The Rape of Proserpina
about 1650–55
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 24.7 x 36.4 cm (9 3/4 x 14 5/16 in.)(trimmed on or within the platemark)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK2175
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Nagler 9 (as Giovanni Cesare Testa); Le Blanc 7 (as G.C. Testa); Bellini (Pietro Testa) 54, ii/ii (rejected attributions); Bellini (Giovanni Cesare Testa) 6, ii/ii; Cropper 123; Illustrated Bartsch (Pietro Testa) 62, ii/ii (erroneous attributions)
Marks
Verso, bottom left, in pen and brown ink, "S.R.K. / From A.C. Whipple. / In exchange. / 1889."; verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Boston (1837-1900)(Lugt 1580); verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Koehler Collection (Lugt 1581)
ProvenanceBy 1889, Henry C. Whipple (b. 1823 - d. 1903), Philadelphia; 1886, gift (by exchange) of Whipple to Sylvester Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, MA, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)
NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900.
NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900.