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David Playing the Harp before Saul
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, about 1494–1533)
about 1508
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 25.4 × 18.3 cm (10 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of William Norton Bullard
Accession Number23.979
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 027; Hollstein (Dutch and Flemish) 27 (I/III); Filedt Kok (New Hollstein) 27 (Ia/III)
State
I(a)/III
Signed
Signed in plate, lower center: L [in reverse]
Marks
Watermark: gothic P with quatrefoil above; stamp in black ink: K Liphart [Lugt 1687]; MFA stamp (Lugt 282) with accession number in graphite: 29856; in graphite: B. 27; no 32; No 27
ProvenanceKarl Eduard von Liphart (b. 1808 - d. 1891; Lugt 1687), Dorpat (Estonia), Bonn and Florence; April 9, 1894, Liphart sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, sold for 1250m [according to Lugt 1687]. Francis Bullard (b. 1862 - d. 1913), Boston; 1913, by inheritance to his brother, Dr. William Norton Bullard (b. 1853 - d. 1931), Boston; April 1,1923, his gift to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 1, 1923)