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Woman Sitting Over a Fire

A Roman Courtesan Punished

Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
After: Bernardo Malpizzi (Italian, 1553–1623)

late 16th–early 17th century

Medium/Technique Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from two blocks in dark gray and black

Dimensions Sheet: 30.4 x 19 cm (11 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)(trimmed into the image)

Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen

Accession Number1975.473

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

This woodcut is normally printed from four blocks, but this impression is printed only from two.

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch XII.149.15

Marks Verso, lower right, stamped in blue ink, the mark of William Eduard Drugulin, Leipzig (1825-1879)(Lugt 2612); verso, bottom right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA W.G. Russell Allen Bequest (not in Lugt)

ProvenanceWilliam Eduard Drugulin, Leipzig (1825-1879)(Lugt 2612); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 10, 1975