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Identification and Creation

Object Number
G250
People
Nicolas Beatrizet the Younger, Italian (active 1540 - 1565)
After Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian (Caprese, Italy 1475 - 1564 Rome, Italy)
Title
The Fall of Phaeton
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1540-1566
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/276093

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
41.8 × 29.1 cm (16 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, bottom: MICH.ANG.INV./ .N. BEATRIZET.LOTAR.RESTITVUIT
  • inscription: in plate, l.l.: ALF [Antonio Lafreri fecit]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
F. Geissler. Francis Calley Gray, bequest; to William Gray, his nephew, 1856, gift; to Harvard University, 1857

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/ii
Standard Reference Number
Bartsch XV.258.38, Bianchi 32

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number
G250
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jamie Gabbarelli and Jonathan Bober, Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Lund Humphries (Washington, DC, 2017), checklist p. 140, p. 64, pl. 22

Exhibition History

  • Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 04/01/2018 - 08/05/2018

Verification Level

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