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Joseph und Frau Potiphar (Joseph and Potiphar's wife) by Hans Meid

Joseph und Frau Potiphar (Joseph and Potiphars wife) by Hans Meid

Joseph und Frau Potiphar (Joseph and Potiphar's wife)

Hans Meid

Title

Joseph und Frau Potiphar (Joseph and Potiphar's wife)

 
Artist

Hans Meid

  1883 - 1957 (biography)
Year
1911  
Technique
drypoint 
Image Size
7 x 9 1/2" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
14/75 (there is also a special edition of 25 on Japanese paper) 
Annotations
pencil dated underneath signature, editioned in lower left 
Reference
Perl 436; WVZ Jentsch 54 
Paper
thick, cream wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
PAKU163 
Price
SOLD
Description
Based on an etching by Rembrandt in 1634. Depicts the Biblical story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife wherein the later attempts to seduce Joseph. He refuses. This story admonishes the act of adultery.