Solomon Worshipping False Gods, 1501

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 18.5 x 15.7 cm (7 5/16 x 6 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 8, p.347, no. 1, State only

Accession Number

1949.4.1

Artists / Makers

Master MZ (artist) German, active c. 1500

Image Use

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Provenance

Rudolf Gutmann [1880-1966, L2770], Vienna;[1] (Christian M. Nebehay, Vienna); sold to (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); sold 17 January 1949 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1949 to NGA.

[1]This print is inventory no. 799 of the Rudolf Gutmann collection confiscated by the Nazis in Austria in 1938. The collection was stored at the Zentraldepot in Vienna and transferred to the salt mine at Alt Aussee. The print was restituted to the Viennese dealer Christian Nebehay acting on Gutmann’s behalf in August 1947 (Restitution decision in Zl. 4716/47; export license in Zl 4694/47 dated 11 August 1947, all Bundesdenkmalamt, Vienna, copies in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Gutmann, Rudolf
Nebehay, Christian
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.

Exhibition History

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 99, repro.

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1990: Russell 1990, cat.no.99.