David Playing the Harp before Saul, 1531

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.8 × 28.6 cm (8 3/16 × 11 1/4 in.) (trimmed)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 1, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2012.92.547

Artists / Makers

Christoph Bockstorfer (artist) German, 1490 - 1553

David Funck (publisher) German, 1642 - 1709

Image Use

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Inscription

monogrammed and dated in image, at lower left: 1531 CB; numbered in image, at lower left: 35; lettered in image, at upper right: IN ERSTE BOVCH SAMOEL / DAS XVI CAPITEL

Provenance

(Paul Prouté S.A., Paris); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 15, 1971; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge: no. 1, ii/ii