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Cupids Playing

(Italian, active about 1544)
1544
Medium/TechniqueChiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks, in two shades of reddish-brown and dark brown
DimensionsSheet: 28.7 x 40 cm (11 5/16 x 15 3/4 in.)(trimmed to or slightly into the borderline at the top and bottom, and to the second, outside, borderlines at the sides)
Credit LineBequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession number1975.529
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen, Boston (1882-1955); his bequest to the MFA September 10, 1975
Monogrammist NDB
1544
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