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Absalom Inviting David and His Brothers, from "The Story of Amnon and Tamar"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

Absalom Inviting David and His Brothers, from "The Story of Amnon and Tamar"

Heinrich Aldegrever

Date
1540
Medium
Engraving; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 11/16 × 3 1/16 in. (11.9 × 7.7 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
66.529.21
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

German, Paderborn ca. 1502–1555/1561 Soest

Subjects and terms

  • Men
  • David

The Met object ID 428318. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.