A White Line Border with Two Cartouches: "A Satyr Sacrificing a Ram," and "The Choice of Hercules"

1497/1498

Benedetto Bordon

Artist, Italian, 1450 - 1530

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut page removed from a book

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Accession

    2013.75.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Essling 1967, no. 1170

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

W. C. Russell Allen. (R. M. Light, 1960); Arthur Vershbow, Boston; (sale, Christie's New York, 10 April 2013, no. 207); (Ursus Books, Ltd., New York); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1967

  • Essling, Victor Messéna. Les livres à figures vénitiens de la fin du XVe siècle et du commencement du XVIe. Turin, 1967: no. 1170.

Inscriptions

in center of page: Prologus. / INCIPIT EXPOSITIO BEATI HIERONYMI / PRAESBYTERI IN PSALTERIVM. ET PRIMO / PROLOGVS EIVSDEM... ; in lower cartouche: S. C. / P. I; verso :printed text

Wikidata ID

Q77005319

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