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The Judgement of Solomon
Master FVB (Netherlandish, 15th century)
about 1490
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 25.8 x 21.4 cm (10 3/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund and Gift of George Peabody Gardner
Accession Number28.1091
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 002; Lehrs 2 (I/II)
State
I/II
Signed
Signed in plate, lower center, below engraved border: FVB
Marks
Watermark: crown with sun below; verso, in graphite: 182; Monogr. FVB/ B.2; D 2; MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 31540
ProvenanceDr. Gerhart Güttler (b. 1889 - d. 1966; Lugt 2807b), Berlin [see Note below]; May 7-9, 1928, his sale, Boerner, Leipzig, Catalogue CLVII, lot 761, purchased for 3100 MK by Colnaghi & Co. (dealers), London, for the MFA. (Accession Date: October 1, 1928)
[Note: Lehrs, in Geschichte und Kritischer Katalog des Deutschen, Niederländischen und Französischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhunder, vol. VII, p. 118, incorrectly cited the Gutmann collection rather than the Güttler collection as the former home of this impression.]
[Note: Lehrs, in Geschichte und Kritischer Katalog des Deutschen, Niederländischen und Französischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhunder, vol. VII, p. 118, incorrectly cited the Gutmann collection rather than the Güttler collection as the former home of this impression.]