David Playing before Saul, 1853

Not on View

Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.48 × 14.61 cm (8 1/16 × 5 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.273

Artists / Makers

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (artist) American, born Germany, 1816 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right on stone: E Leutze 1853

Provenance

Rear Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze (son of the artist), New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1917; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1972: The Dusseldorf Academy and the Americans, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1972-1973

1976: The Hudson on the Rhine, Kuntsmuseum, Dusseldorf; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, 1976

Bibliography

1975: Groseclose, Barbara S. Emanuel Leutze, 1816-1868: Freedom is the Only King. Washington, DC: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1975, p. 127, no. 261.