God Breathing Life into Adam, 1760s

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24.2 x 17.2 cm (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)

sheet: 26.1 x 19.4 cm (10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagler, no. 3

Accession Number

2000.89.5

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

below image in plate: Formavit igitur Dominus Deus hominem de limo terrae, et in- / spiravit in faciem ejus spiraculum vitae, et factus est homo in / aminam vivenem. Genes. C. 2. V. 7. Palcko fe: jun: membr: Acad. res:; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: geb. in Wien / + Prag 1767; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: TT/199
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Provenance

Wilhelm Soldan, Berlin (not in Lugt). (C.G. Boerner Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

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. 3.