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Playing Card: The King of Clubs (Alexandre)

about 1750-1775
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut, printed in color (possibly a modern reproduction)
DimensionsSheet: 8.3 × 5.4 cm (3 1/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
Image (borderline): 8 × 5.1 cm (3 1/8 × 2 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession number2002.586
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsVerso, in pen and brown ink, "Pocholles, en Picardie de gueules à la Croix d'or, e acompagnée d'un Epervier s'essorant de même"
ProvenanceEleanor A. Sayre, Cambridge, MA; bequest to MFA
St. Bartholomew
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
16th century
Conservation Status: After reupholstering
Kilian Brothers
about 1870
Easy chair
about 1795–1810
[Untitled]
Wlodzimierz Ksiazek
1995
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
about 1885
Unidentified artist, American, 19th century
about 1885
Au Hanneton
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1898
Textile fragment
late 18th to early 19th century