The Conquest of Ignorance, 1560s

Not on View

engraving on laid paper

sheet (cut within platemark): 28.7 x 42.5 cm (11 5/16 x 16 3/4 in.)

Robert-Dumesnil, no. 16

2006.162.3

René Boyvin (artist) French, c. 1525 - 1598 or c. 1625

Rosso Fiorentino (artist after) Florentine, 1494 - 1540

upper left in plate: MALI, OSTIV / LOVIS; lower left in plate: Rous. Floren. Inven. / Renatus Fecit.

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 16, 1970; gift to NGA, 2006.

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Prouté, S.A., Paul

1967: Robert-Dumesnil, A.P.F. Le peintre-graveur francais, ou catalogue raisonne des estampes gravees par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'ecole francaise, ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de M. Bartsch. Reprint (11 vols. in 6). Paris: F. deNobe