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Dance of Fauns and Bacchants

(Italian, about 1490–after 1536)
1516
Medium/TechniqueEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 17.9 x 26 cm (7 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit LineHarvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession numberP1249
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
Description
This impression is of the right half of Bartsch 250 only, with the hand, tambourine, and skirt of the second bacchant on the original full plate burnished out. It is not the copy described by Bartsch.
ProvenanceSir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792)(Lugt 2364); Henry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897