Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
c. 1500/1599
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
tapestry: undyed wool warp; dyed wool, silk, and silver-gilt- and silver-wrapped silk weft
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 255.3 x 334.3 cm (100 1/2 x 131 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.445
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mathieu-Paul-August-Maurice Chabrières-Arlés [1829-1897], Lyon. Baron Leopold Hirsch, London. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris), by 1918.[1] Inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[2] gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] The tapestry was lent by Duveen Brothers to an exhibition in Cleveland in 1918.
[2] The tapestry was In the Widener collection by 1925, when it was published by George Leland Hunter, The Practical Book of Tapestries, Philadelphia and London, 1925: 23+.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1918
Loan Exhibition of Tapestries, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1918, no. 1.
Bibliography
1935
Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 119.
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 19, as Flemish 16th Century.
1982
Abrams, Richard I. and Warner A. Hutchinson. An Illustrated Life of Jesus, From the National Gallery of Art Collection. Nashville, 1982: 72-73, color repro.
Inscriptions
at the center, on the stone base-beam above the lower border: mittat labe care's ut eä primit'saxa (mittat labe care[n]s ut ea[m] primit[us] saxa; He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her [John, 8:7]); on the decorative hem of the tunic of the man holding a stone on the left in the center compartment: I*ANO [and] NL'
Wikidata ID
Q62268431