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Landscape with a Large Group of People by a Ruined Temple

Adam Perelle (French, 1640–1695)
about 1660-1695

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 12.8 × 14.1 cm (5 1/16 × 5 9/16 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP18533
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
InscriptionsEngraved in the plate, top right, "33."; engraved in the plate, bottom right, "47."
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816-d. 1896; cf. 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]. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)