Solomon Worshipping False Gods
1501
Artist, German, active c. 1500

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 18.5 x 15.7 cm (7 5/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.4.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 8, p.347, no. 1, State only
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Wikidata ID
Q65081195