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Marriage of the Virgin

(Netherlandish, 1571–1631)
(Italian (Venetian), about 1518–1594)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 62.8 × 19.8 cm (24 3/4 × 7 13/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William Perkins Babcock
Accession numberB2586
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, within image, lower right: Iacobus Tintoret Inue.; and in margin below image: lower left: Perpetæ quamuis ob virginitatis amorem/Spreverat et thalamos, seseq Sacraverat aris/Virgo, Deum paritura: tamen monitisq parentu,/Divinoq imprimis arbitrio desponsa marito; lower right: Traditur, arcani pariter qui conscius esset/Consilÿ, et nivei custos testisq pudoris,/Curarumq simul socius, consorq laborum,/Ipse etiam null certus succumbere lubi.
ProvenanceWilliam Perkins Babcock (b. 1826 - d. 1899; Lugt 207), Paris; 1900, bequest of William Perkins Babcock to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1900)
Unidentified artist, 18th century
late 18th century
Unidentified artist, 18th century
1785
Unidentified artist, French, 16th century
about 1547
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Unidentified artist, Italian, 17th century
early 17th–mid 17th century
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
after 1580
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
late 16th–early 17th century
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
after 1628
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1569
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
late 16th century
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
late 16th century
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
late 16th century
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
late 16th century