Thetis and Chiron (The Centaur Chiron Visited by Thetis)
Georg Pencz, German, about 1500 - 1550
1543
Engraving on paper
Sheet: 5 1/4 × 7 3/8 in. (13.3 × 18.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl, and John S. Stahl in memory of their parents Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Class of 1947
2014.73.100
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, upper right, in plate, on scroll: A CHILLEM HVCNC MA / GISTRO SVO CHIRCONE / 15 [P / G] 43 ; inscribed, on reverse, right side, top to bottom, in graphite: Georg Pencz / Teti e Chirono, 1543 / Bar 90
Provenance
Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.
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