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Man with a Torch and a Woman, Followed by a Fool
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
about 1508
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 11.8 x 8.7 cm (4 5/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 11.9 x 8.8 cm (4 11/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 12 x 8.8 cm (4 3/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
Platemark: 11.9 x 8.8 cm (4 11/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 12 x 8.8 cm (4 3/4 x 3 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number42.271
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio)147; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish, vol. X) 147 (only state); Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 147 (b)
State
I/I
Signed
Signed in plate, on the purse of the man with the torch, center: L
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's mark stamped in blue in: [Émile Galichon; Lugt 856]; MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 35768; in graphite: B 147; B. 147; M578.
ProvenanceÉmile Galichon (b. 1829 - d. 1875), Paris and Cannes. 1942, sold by Richard H. Zinser (dealer; b. 1884 - d. 1984; Lugt 5581), Forest Hills, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 14, 1942)