God Commanding Adam and Eve

1760s

Franz Karl Palko

Artist, Czech, 1724 - 1767/1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24 x 17 cm (9 7/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.5 x 21.2 cm (8 1/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.98.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Nagler, no. 4


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Wilhelm Soldan, Berlin, after 1950 (Lugt undescribed). (sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 4-5 June 1999, no. 5934); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 1999 by NGA with funds contributed by The Ahmanson Foundation.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1835

  • Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 4.

Inscriptions

across bottom in plate: De ligno autem scientiae boni, et mali ne comedas. / In quocunque enim die comederis ex eo, morte morieris. / Genes. C. 2. v. 17.; lower left in plate: Xa: Palko fe: junior membr: Acade: cesareae.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 2275

Wikidata ID

Q75424957


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