David Playing the Harp before Saul

1531

Christoph Bockstorfer

Artist, German, 1490 - 1553

David Funck

Publisher, German, 1642 - 1709

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    2012.92.547

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 1, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q76557150

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