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Bacchanal with Silenus
Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
about 1470-1480
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 26.5 × 41.1 cm (10 7/16 × 16 3/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number65.1755
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind V, 12, 3; Bartsch XIII, 240, 20; Illustrated Bartsch 2506.007
Marks
Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsOutlines of figures retouched with pen.
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; 1965, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 15, 1965)