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The Rape of Proserpina

Jean Lepautre (French, 1618–1682)
about 1650-1680

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 24.1 × 32.7 cm (9 1/2 × 12 7/8 in.)(with 3 mm margin at the top and 4 mm margin at the bottom; trimmed on the platemark at the sides)
Credit Line Gift of Clifford S. Ackley in honor of Lucien Goldschmidt, Print and Book Dealer
Accession Number1987.196
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné IFF 0153, i/iv
Marks Recto, bottom left, stamped in black ink, the mark of Baron Henri de Triqueti, Paris (1802-1874)(Lugt 1304); verso, bottom right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceBaron Henri de Triqueti (b. 1802-d. 1874; Lugt 1304), Paris. Clifford S. Ackley (b. 1937), Boston; 1987, his gift to the MFA (Accession Date: March 25, 1987)