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A Putto Presenting Grain to Ceres

Manner of: Giulio di Antonio Bonasone (Italian, active 1539–1574)
mid 16th century

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 13.7 x 15.5 cm (5 3/8 x 6 1/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.2229
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch (prints by unknown engravers in the style of Bonasone) 2
Marks Verso, lower left-center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1964, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: January 13, 1965)