About the Artwork
Two Satyrs Bring Silenus to King Midas
between 1500 and 1580
Guilio di Antonio Bonasone
1498-1580
Italian
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 6 1/4 × 8 5/8 inches (15.9 × 21.9 cm) Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 7/8 inches (18.7 × 25.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S167
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower center of image: I. BONAHSO. F.
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: 89.
Watermark, traced in pencil, verso: [shield] Stamped, in black, verso: W. Koller (Lugt 2632) Stamped, verso: Scripps 1887 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
Wilhelm Koller (Vienna, Austria)
September 1887, C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Guilio di Antonio Bonasone, Two Satyrs Bring Silenus to King Midas, between 1500 and 1580, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S167.
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