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The Triumph of Caesar, Plate 5: Elephants and Torches

Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
After: Andrea Mantegna (Italian (Paduan, active in Mantua), about 1431–1506)
1599

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks, in four shades of gray-green
Dimensions Sheet: 39.2 x 38.3 cm (15 7/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Image (borderline): 38.4 x 37.4 cm (15 1/8 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Children of Dr. James B. Ayer
Accession Number21.10794.5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.101.11, Plate 5; Meyer 32, Plate 5
Marks Verso, bottom left, in pen and black ink, the mark of Johann Andreas Boerner, Nuremberg (1785-1862)(cf. Lugt 269, 270); verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceJohann Andreas Boerner, Nuremberg (1785–1862)(cf. Lugt 269, 270); James B. Ayer, Boston; to his children, Mrs. John E. Rousmanière, Mrs. Henderson Inches, Nathaniel F. Ayer, Esq., and James B. Ayer (1882-1968, Chief of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School); their gift to the MFA December 31, 1921