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Woman Contemplating a Skull
Woman Contemplating a Skull

Woman Contemplating a Skull

Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)
Alessandro di Agostino Casolani (Italian, 1552–1606)
1591
Medium/TechniqueChiaroscuro woodcut, printed from four blocks in orange-brown, brown, gray-violet, and black
DimensionsSheet: 28.6 x 21.7 cm (11 1/4 x 8 9/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline; lacking the inscription below the lower borderline)
Credit LineBequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number1975.466
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceCabinet Brentano-Birckenstock (founded 1765 by Johann Melchior Birckenstock (1738-1809)), Vienna and Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 345); sold following the death in 1869 of Antonie, Birckenstock's only daughter, wife of Franz Brentano, Frankfurt, Prestel, May 16, 1870 and following days, lot 2738; bought by Meyer for 30 Kr.; Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Lugt 686); W.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 10, 1975