Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, c. 1500/1599

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Medium

tapestry: undyed wool warp; dyed wool, silk, and silver-gilt- and silver-wrapped silk weft

Dimensions

overall: 255.3 x 334.3 cm (100 1/2 x 131 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.445

Artists / Makers

Netherlandish 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

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'

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

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Hirsch, Leopold
Widener, Joseph E.

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.