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The Triumph of Caesar: Frontispiece
Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
After: Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
After: Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
1599
Medium/Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in four shades of grayish brown
Dimensions
Sheet: 36.5 x 36.8 cm (14 3/8 x 14 1/2 in.)(trimmed to, or slightly into, the borderline)
Credit Line
Gift of the Children of Dr. James B. Ayer
Accession Number21.10794.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch XII.101.11, Frontispiece; Meyer 32, Frontispiece
Marks
Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceJames B. Ayer, Boston; to his children, Mrs. John E. Rousmanière, Mrs. Henderson Inches, Nathaniel F. Ayer, Esq., and James B. Ayer (1882-1968, Chief of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School); their gift to the MFA December 31, 1921