Diogenes

Ugo da Carpi (Italian, active about 1502–1532)
After: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, 1503–1540)

mid 1520s

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in four shades of reddish brown

Dimensions Platemark: 48.2 x 35.7 cm (19 x 14 1/16 in.)(trimmed at the edge of, or in places very slightly into, the image)

Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number64.1087

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.100.10

Marks Verso, lower left, in pencil, the mark of Pietro Malenza, Verona (died 1866)(Lugt 2101), 1858; verso, bottom right, in pen and red ink, an unidentified collector's mark (Lugt 649bis); verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (Lugt 3593)

ProvenancePietro Malenza, Verona (died 1866)(Lugt 2101), 1858; an unidentified collector (Lugt 649bis); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 23, 1964