Sacrifice of a Boar

ca. 1540-1550 (Renaissance)

5.6 cm 4.6 cm

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A priest draped in a short garment, holds in his left hand the hind legs of a boar and the culter (a knife) in his right. Behind a round altar rises the image of the god, or more probably of the hero, to whom the nocturnal sacrifice is offered.

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25114
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Sale, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, April 21, 1902 (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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