God Commanding Adam and Eve, 1760s

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagler, no. 4

Accession Number

1999.98.7

Artists / Makers

Franz Karl Palko (artist) Czech, 1724 - 1767/1770

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Boerner LLC, C.G.
David Carritt Limited, Artemis Group

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.