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Primula in the Moss

(Dutch, 1863–1917)
1905
Medium/TechniqueLithograph on chine collé
DimensionsSheet: 26.6 × 29.1 cm (10 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.)
Image: 24.7 × 27.6 cm (9 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.)
Mount: 35.1 × 47.9 cm (13 13/16 × 18 7/8 in.)
Credit LineArthur and Charlotte Vershbow Fund
Accession number2020.238
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn the stone, lower left: THOYTEMA In pencil, lower right: No 10 / Th van Hoytema
ProvenanceBy 2009, sold by Eric Ariëns-Kappers (dealer), Amsterdam to Barbara Stern Shapiro (b. 1929 – d. 2019), New York [see note]; January 29, 2020, Barbara Stern Shapiro Estate sale, Black Rock Galleries, Bridgeport, CT, lot 51, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 17, 2020)

NOTE: Barbara Stern Shapiro was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the departments of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Contemporary Art, as well as the Development Department, from about 1970 until 2003. She received the title Curator Emerita upon her retirement in 2003.
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