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The Rape of Proserpine

(Italian, last half of the 16th century)
about 1600
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut
DimensionsSheet: 44.7 x 35.1 cm (17 5/8 x 13 13/16 in.)(trimmed to the borderline)
Credit LineFund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession number66.837
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
Description
In this impression, the head of the top horse faces down at about a forty-five degree angle, and the head of the bottom horse faces straight down.
ProvenanceR.E. Lewis, Inc., San Francisco; 1966, sold by R.E. Lewis, Inc. to the MFA for $175. (Accession Date: October 11, 1966)
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