Source URL: https://staging.dia.org/art/collection/object/judgement-solomon-56761
Georg Pencz
The Judgement of Solomon, between ca. 1532 and ca. 1540
engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Download the image
Artist Georg Pencz, German, 1500-1550
Title
  • The Judgement of Solomon
  • Stories of the Old Testament (series title)
Date between ca. 1532 and ca. 1540
Medium engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 1 3/8 × 3 inches (3.5 × 7.6 cm)
Sheet: 2 × 3 inches (5.1 × 7.6 cm)
Credit Line Bequest of Hal H. Smith
Accession Number 45.356
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, in plate, upper left: [artist's monogram]
Marks Stamp, lower left, recto: Peter Lely (Lugt 2092)
Stamp, in black, verso: Lawson Thompson (Lugt 1770)
Inscriptions Inscribed, verso, in pencil: [notations]
Peter Lely (London, England);
Lawson Thompson (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England).
1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)