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Adoration of the Magi

(Netherlandish, active about 1470–1490)
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 34.8 x 23.9 cm (13 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Credit LineHarvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession numberP857
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceAmbroise Firmin-Didot (b. 1790 - d. 1876; Lugt 119), Paris; April 16 - May 12, 1877, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Danlos & Delisle, lot 166, sold for 400 francs to Danlos; Louis Galichon (b. 1829 - d. 1893; Lugt 1060) Paris; March 4 - 9, 1895, his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 1172, sold for 360 francs. Henry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; November 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)

Note: Max Lehrs, Geschichte und Kritischer Katalog des Deutschen Niederländischen und Französischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert, vol. 7, Vienna, 1930, no. 1, footnote 10, p. 177.
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about 1470–90
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about 1490–1500
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about 1475–80
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Master of the Housebook (Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet)
about 1475–80
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about 1490-1513
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Giovanni Pietro da Birago (The Master of the Sforza Book of Hours)
about 1490-1513
Master of the Die
1530s
Master of the Die
1530s