Woman Holding Two Tablets (the Cumaean Sibyl?)
Bonifazio de' Pitati
(Italian (Venetian), 1487–1553)
1530s
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions91.2 x 78.1 cm (35 7/8 x 30 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Major Henry Lee Higginson in memory of Edward H. Hooper
Accession number01.6215
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ProvenanceMay 2, 1901, sold by Haskard's Bank, Florence, and Charles Fairfax Murray (b. 1849 - d. 1919), London, to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London (stock no. 9867) [see note]; July 1901, sold by Agnew to Henry Lee Higginson (b. 1834 - d. 1919), Boston; 1901, gift of Henry Lee Higginson to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1901)
NOTE: Haskard's formed a joint partnership with Agnew and Murray around 1900. See David B. Elliott, Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite (Lewes, 2000), 188.
NOTE: Haskard's formed a joint partnership with Agnew and Murray around 1900. See David B. Elliott, Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite (Lewes, 2000), 188.
Marie Diéterle Van Marcke de Lummen
Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes
about 1895
Jacob de Heusch
Hugues de Beaumont
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg II
Maurice de Vlaminck
Carel de Moor