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David Playing His Harp Before Saul
Possibly by: Adriaen Thomasz Key (Netherlandish, about 1554–1589)
Designed by: Frans Floris (Netherlandish, 1519 or 1520–1570)
Designed by: Frans Floris (Netherlandish, 1519 or 1520–1570)
1555
Medium/Technique
Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed from four blocks in brown and three shades of sepia-orange
Dimensions
33.97 x 48.89 cm (13 3/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1985.790
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish, vol. VI, F. Floris) 001 (I/I); Wouk (New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish, F. Floris) 1
Marks
Watermark: crowned double eagle
Verso, stamped in black with the collector's mark of Paul Davidsohn [Lugt 654]
Verso, in graphite: Winkler. Ecole de Pays-Bas, I, p. 340. No. 1835, [?]; in graphite: [?]
Verso, stamped in black with the collector's mark of Paul Davidsohn [Lugt 654]
Verso, in graphite: Winkler. Ecole de Pays-Bas, I, p. 340. No. 1835, [?]; in graphite: [?]
InscriptionsInscribed on the base of the throne, lower left: SAUL . . I . REG. CA . XVI; on the edge of the platform, lower left: FRACISCVS FLORIS INVETOR . IVDOCE DE CVRIA EXCVDEBAT. 1555.
ProvenancePaul Davidsohn (b. 1839 - d. 1927?; Lugt 654), London, Vienna, and Berlin; May 3-8, 1920, his sale, Leipzig, C.G. Boerner, CXXIX, lot 2170. W. G. Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; his bequest to the MFA. (Accession Date, October 23, 1985)