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The Small Garden of Love
Master of the Gardens of Love (Netherlandish, active in 1440–1450)
1440–50
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 8.5 x 19.9 cm (3 3/8 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number65.594
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs 020 (I/I)
State
I/I
Description
Signed
Not signed
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's stamp in blue ink: CH. PROTECTOR MEUS [in border of vertically oriented oval, with three stars in the center; the Arenberg Collection; Lugt 567]; in graphite, circled: No. 6026 [and] Do; No[o underlined] 1
ProvenanceBy 1860, the Dukes of Arenberg, Brussels [see note 1]; until 1952, by descent within the family to Engelbert-Charles, 10th Duc d'Arenberg (b. 1901 - d. 1974), Monte Carlo; 1952, consigned for sale by the Duc d'Arenberg to Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York (stock no. 8289); January 18, 1955, sold by Seligmann to Richard H. Zinser (dealer; b. 1884 - d. 1984), Forest Hills, NY; 1965, sold by Zinser to the MFA for $30,000. (Accession Date: May 12, 1965)
NOTES:
[1] Johann David Passavant, Le peintre-graveur, vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1860), p. 203. [2] Archives of American Art, Jacques Seligmann and Co. Papers, Series 2, Collectors Files, Box 229, folder 10, Arenberg Engravings. Also see Engravings from the Celebrated Collection of the Dukes d'Arenberg (Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, 1955), cat. no. 15.
NOTES:
[1] Johann David Passavant, Le peintre-graveur, vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1860), p. 203. [2] Archives of American Art, Jacques Seligmann and Co. Papers, Series 2, Collectors Files, Box 229, folder 10, Arenberg Engravings. Also see Engravings from the Celebrated Collection of the Dukes d'Arenberg (Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York, 1955), cat. no. 15.