Description
This print portrays Christ—with the twelve apostles—miraculously healing a group of lepers encountered on his way to Jerusalem. Andrea Andreani who, after 1599, acquired a number of the earlier blocks of artists like Vicentino and Ugo de Carpi. He published these as his own, reworking them in some cases and adding his initials, an in the CMA example.
Provenance
Galerie Arnot, Vienna and Paris, stamp (Lugt 124), verso, upper left, in black ink ; purchased from Maurice Gobin, Paris
Accession Number
1925.983
Medium
chiaroscuro woodcut (in two shades of gray and black)
Dimensions
Sheet: 29.8 x 41.8 cm (11 3/4 x 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland