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Man Holding a Festoon

Man Holding a Festoon

(Italian (Florentine), 1475–1564)
16th century
Medium/TechniqueChiaroscuro woodcut, printed from two blocks in red-brown and black on tan paper, with added white highlights, cut out around the image and laid down on a backing sheet watercolored in red-brown
DimensionsSheet: 32.4 x 25.5 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)(maximum dimensions; trimmed irregularly around the image)
Credit LineBequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number1975.417
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 10, 1975
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