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Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyards to King Ahab (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22.67.29)

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A woodcut, first state, titled "Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyards to King Ahab," by the Netherlandish printmaker Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1517, illustrating the episode from the First Book of Kings in which Jezebel schemes to seize Naboth's vineyard for her husband Ahab. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints department, under accession 22.67.29, Rogers Fund, 1922.

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Object Type
Print (Engraving, Etching, Woodcut or Lithograph) 1
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Medium
Woodcut, first state, Lucas van Leyden, ca. 1517, Metropolitan Museum of Art 22.67.29 1
Medium (class)
Woodcut 1
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Judaism, Religions
Source Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyards to King Ahab, accession 22.67.29 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Depicts

Jezebel, Figures

The Met's own title for this woodcut names the subject outright and states her narrative act, "Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyards to King Ahab," a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.

Source Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyards to King Ahab, accession 22.67.29 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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1. Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyards to King Ahab, accession 22.67.29 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • accession 22.67.29
  • catalogue record, medium/object-type description
    A woodcut, first state, titled "Jezebel Promising Naboth's Vineyards to King Ahab," by the Netherlandish printmaker Lucas van Leyden, ca.
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