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Temptation of Saint Anthony
Martin Schongauer (German, about 1430–1491)
about 1470–75
Medium/Technique
Engraving on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 30.6 x 23 cm (12 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz and Duplicate Print Fund
Accession Number23.1393
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 047; Lehrs 54, ii / ii; Hollstein (German, vol. XLIX) 54, ii / ii
State
II/II
Signed
Signed in plate, lower center: M+S [monogram]
Marks
Verso, Berlin Kupferstichkabinett stamp in brown ink (Lugt 1607, dated 1885, and numbered in graphite pencil: 26)
Verso, deaccession stamp of Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Lugt 2482)
Verso, in black ink, the collector's stamp of Paul Davidsohn (Lugt 654)
Verso, in gray ink, the collector's stamp of Arkady Nicolayevitch Alferoff (Lugt 1727)
Verso, deaccession stamp of Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Lugt 2482)
Verso, in black ink, the collector's stamp of Paul Davidsohn (Lugt 654)
Verso, in gray ink, the collector's stamp of Arkady Nicolayevitch Alferoff (Lugt 1727)
InscriptionsLower center, in plate: M + S
Verso, in graphite: C.7589; 75; Dp Sj[?]n; 785; B47
Verso, in graphite: C.7589; 75; Dp Sj[?]n; 785; B47
ProvenanceNarcisse Révil (b. 1779 - d. 1844; Lugt 2138), Paris; March 26-28, 1838, Révil sale, Hotel des Ventes, Paris, lot 235, sold for fr. 350. François Debois (d. about 1845; Lugt 985), Paris; April 21-26, 1845, Debois sale, Hotel des Ventes, Paris, lot 1083, sold for fr. 565. Henry James Brooke (b. 1771 - d. 1857; Lugt 1324), Clapham Rise, near London; May 23-28, 1853, Brooke sale, Sotheby and Wilkinson, London, lot 773, sold for £25 to Graves. Arkady Nicolayevitch Alferoff (b. 1811 - d. 1872; Lugt 1727), Bonn; May 10-13, 1869, Alferoff sale, Hotel de Frohsinn, Munich, lot 710. Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen, Berlin (Lugt 2482); deaccessioned from the Kupferstichkabinett; March 6, 1899, Kupferstichkabinett doubles sale, Amsler and Ruthardt, Berlin, lot 1883. Paul Davidsohn (b. 1839 - d. 1927?), London, Vienna, and Berlin; April 26-29, 1921, 3rd Davidsohn sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, lot 785. P and D Colnaghi, London. 1923, sold by FitzRoy Carrington (b. 1869 - d. 1954), Niantic, CT, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 1, 1923)