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The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket (from the series the Large Power of Women)

The Poet Virgil Suspended in a Basket (from the series the Large Power of Women)

(Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut
DimensionsImage: 41.5 x 28.9 cm (16 5/16 x 11 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 41.5 cm (16 5/16 in.)
Credit LineSamuel Putnam Avery Fund
Accession number21.10630
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsLower left in brown ink : L (not by Lucas) Verso; some
ProvenancePaul Davidsohn (b. 1839), London and Berlin (Lugt 654); November 22-26, 1920, his sale Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, CXXX, lot 1113 (illustrated); to P. & D. Colnaghi (London); from whom purchased by MFA, 1921.

NOTE: The MFA's acquisition register book and the print's mat says ex coll. R. Dumesnil (Lugt 2199-2200), but the print bears no mark (the source for this information might be Hollstein).