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The Three Fates
Hans Baldung (Grien) (German, 1484 or 1485–1545)
1513
Medium/Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed close to woodcut border): 22 x 15.6 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP18917
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 044; Curjel 34; Hollstein 236
State
I
Signed
Signed and datedin block, on tablet hanging from tree, upper left: .HBG [monogram] . 1513
Marks
Watermark (yes, but not yet identified); verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 18917; in graphite: baldung; B44; g.y.N.7.p 315. N 44; 1961 [underlined]; Has; W.10714; H. B. Grün[?].
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note 1]. (Acquisition Date: October 21, 1897)
NOTE:
[1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.
NOTE:
[1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.