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The Adoration of the Magi

about 1510–1550

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks, in yellow-brown, brown, and dark green
Dimensions Sheet: 33.7 x 24.6 cm (13 1/4 x 9 11/16 in.)(trimmed into or slightly within the borderline)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.1029
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.030.3
Marks Verso, lower left, in pen and brown ink, the initials "IaB" (?) and an unidentified paraph (not in Lugt); verso, right center, in pen and brown ink, the mark of Jean Mariette, Paris (1660-1742)(Lugt 1786a), 1728; verso, lower center, in brown ink, the duplicate stamp of the Albertina (Lugt 5g); verso, upper center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)
ProvenanceUnidentified collector(s)(marks not in Lugt); Jean Mariette, Paris (1660-1742)(Lugt 1786a), 1728; Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5g); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 23, 1964