Luca Giordano
Christ and the Adulteress
1652
Physical Qualities
Etching with stipple and foul biting, Sheet: 360 x 513 mm. (14 3/16 x 20 3/16 in.)
Plate: 357 x 490 mm. (14 1/16 x 19 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Alfred R. and Henry G. Riggs in Memory of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1987.92
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1987; R.M. Light & Co., Inc. Santa Barbara, California; Ture Lundh collection (Scandinavian).
"Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque: Parmigianino to Luca Giordano,: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 24-March 26, 1989; Cleveland Museum of Art, April 18-June 18, 1989; National Gallery of Art, September 24-November 26, 1989. Curators Susan Welsh Reed and Richard W. Wallace.
Jay FIsher, BMA, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.
Elizabeth Rodini, Jacobs Rotation, spring 2005
Jay FIsher, BMA, "A Decade of Print Acquisitions 1985-1995," 17 April - 23 June 1996.
Elizabeth Rodini, Jacobs Rotation, spring 2005
Reed, Susan Welsh. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque; Boston: Museum of FIne Arts, c. 1989, p. 286, illust. p. 287.
Signed: one
Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix, LR: "Lucas Jordanus F. 1653 [last digit reversed]."
Markings: Watermark: fleur-de-lis above three mounds in circle, letter M above
