Lucas Van Leyden | David Playing the Harp Before Saul | SOLD
David Playing The Harp Before Saul c1508
Engraving on laid paper
size: 252 x 184 mm
Second or Third State of 3 - CC Watermark
A nice well inked impression of a rare and important old master engraving
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David who has just slain Goliath, Plays his harp before King Saul, whilst Saul in a jealous rage (his constitutants are whispering that David will be the new King, since slaying the giant) contemplates spearing David.
It is said that this work also is a self portrait of Van Leyden, he has apparently placed him self in the background next to Saul.
Lucas van Leyden (1494 – 8 August 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Dutch painter and printmaker in engraving and woodcut. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and was a very accomplished engraver.
Today, Lucas's work is held in the permanent collections of several institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[13) the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[11] the British Museum,[7] the Princeton University Art Museum,[15] the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,[16] the Philadelphia Museum of Art,[17] the Fralin Museum of Art,[18] the Brooklyn Museum,[19] the Ashmolean Museum,[20] the Detroit Institute of Arts,[21] the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,[22] the Worcester Art Museum,[23] the Clark Art Institute,[24] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[25] and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.[26]