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Bearded Man with Blank Shield
Bearded Man with Blank Shield

Bearded Man with Blank Shield

Master of the Housebook (Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet) (German or Netherlandish, active last quarter of the 15th century)
about 1475–80
Medium/TechniqueDrypoint
DimensionsPlatemark: 9.3 x 7.3 cm (3 11/16 x 2 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 18 × 12.5 cm (7 1/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Credit LineKatherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession number66.376
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBy 1893, Count Andreas Martiner von Maltzan (b. 1863 - d. 1921), Militsch Castle, Silesia (present-day Milicz, Poland) [see note 1]. 1966, sold by Richard H. Zinser (dealer; b. 1884 - d. 1984), Forest Hills, NY, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 1, 1966)

NOTES: [1] See Max Lehrs, The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet (London, 1893), p. 7. no. 83.