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The Rape of Ganymede
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
After: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian (Florentine), 1475–1564)
After: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian (Florentine), 1475–1564)
mid 16th–late 16th century
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 42.6 x 28.1 cm (16 3/4 x 11 1/16 in.)(trimmed irregularly along the platemark, in places slightly inside, in places with thread margins)
Credit Line
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number66.449
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Schéle 235 (copy), an impression before "Romae Claudii Duchetti formis"
DescriptionReverse copy of C. Bos (Schéle 235).
See also Bonasone (or Beatrizet)
See also Bonasone (or Beatrizet)
Marks
Verso, upper center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceCraddock and Barnard, London; 1966, sold by Craddock and Barnard to the MFA for $8.40. (Accession Date: September 21, 1966)