Chiaroscuro woodcut from 2 blocks, brown-gray/black, state ib
Inscriptions: “BAL. SEN” and “PER VGO” in the line block
States: state ia before damage to the bird; state ib with damage to the bird
See comment in ALU.0950.1
Naoko Takahatake, The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June-September 2018, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, October 2018-January 2019, DelMonico Books/Prestel, Munich-London-New York, 2018, pp. 73-77.
Other impressions of state ib:
-BM 1895,0122.1239: brown-gray/black (wmk: siren in a circle) https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-1239
-BM 1856,0614.137: brown-gray/black (wmk: siren in a circle) https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1856-0614-137
-Rijkmseum 31.085: gray/black (wmk: siren in circle) RP-P-OB-31.085 http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.51438
-Budapest 6161: gray/black (wmk: siren in circle; with tone block of Venus on verso) http://printsanddrawings.hu/search/prints/6161/
-Baselitz collection (Gnann, no. 31): (wmk: siren in circle)
-BnF EA 39 res: gray/black (wmk: siren in circle; with tone block of Venus on verso)
-Cleveland 25.443: gray/black (wmk: siren in circle) https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1925.443
-MMA 20.24.76: gray/black (wmk: siren in circle) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337700
-BNE Madrid 44267: blue-green/black (wmk: hand and flower)
-Chatsworth vol. IV, fol. 65, no. 88: gray/black (possibly with tone block of Venus on verso)
-MFA Boston 64.1125: brown-gray/black https://collections.mfa.org/objects/4355/hercules-chasing-avarice-from-the-temple-of-the-muses
-Windsor: gray/black
-Lisbon: brown-gray/black
-Kirk Edward Long Collection
Uncertain state
-MMA 22.73.3-21: gray/black https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/632802
-Braunschweig I.XVI.8: blue-gray/black (inv. UdCarpi AB 3.8) http://kk.haum-bs.de/?id=carpi-u-d-ab3-0008
-Fitzwilliam [check accession]: brown-gray/black
-Paris, Rothschild 4387: brown-gray/black
-Frankfurt 33938: gray/black
For impressions of Version A see ALU.0949.1
For impressions of Version B, state ia see ALU.0950.1