Print Description
“Abigail asking David’s forgiveness.” At centre, Abigail and her maids bowing and presenting food offerings to David, seen standing before her; David’s soldiers seen behind him.
Made by an anonymous engraver after Maerten de Vos.
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 29 x 22.5 cm (11.42 x 8.86 inch). Image size: 25.5 x 19.8 cm. (10.04 x 7.8 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Some staining and some thin paper spots at top. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
ABIGAIL-ASKING-DAVID-FORGIVENESS | PCO-E17-20
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Publisher: Gerard de Jode.
Biography artist: Maerten de Vos, Maerten de Vos the Elder or Marten de Vos (1532 – 4 December 1603) was a Flemish painter. He is known mainly for his history and allegorical paintings and portraits. He was, together with the brothers Ambrosius Francken I and Frans Francken I, one of the leading history painters in the Spanish Netherlands after Frans Floris career slumped in the second half of the sixteenth century as a result of the Iconoclastic fury of the Beeldenstorm.
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