Medea Handing the Penates to Jason

Artist Georg Pencz (German, 1500 - 1550)

Dateca. 1539

MediumLine engraving

DimensionsPlate: 4 9/16 × 2 15/16 inches (11.59 × 7.46 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number32-74/7

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Exhibition History

Old Master Prints of Five Centuries, Kansas City Public Library, KS, September-November 1967, no cat.

Provenance

With Knoedler and Company, New York, by May 1, 1932;

Purchased from Knoedler and Company by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1932.

Published References

Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre-graveur, vol. 8 (Vienna: Joseph Vinzenz Degen, 1803-21), no. 71, p. 340, as Quatre sujets de la fable (Suite de quatre estampes): Médée remettant entre les mains de Jason ses dieux pénates pour gage de sa foi. Jason est debout à gauche, vis-à-vis de Médée qui est assise à droite, sur un siège au bas duquel le chiffre et l’année 1539 sont.

Paul Landau, Catalogo completo dell’opera grafica di Georg Pencz, trans. Anthony Paul (Milan: Salomon e Agustoni, 1978), no. 74.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 301, as Medea Handing the Penates to Jason.

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