Art, literature & history
David Playing the Harp before Saul
1555
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- chiaroscuro woodcut printed from 4 blocks: black line block and three tone blocks in shades of gray-green on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 33.1 x 48.1 cm (13 1/16 x 18 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1997.2.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Frans Floris. David Playing the Harp before Saul. Frans Floris I; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frans_Floris_I,_David_Playing_the_Harp_before_Saul,_1555,_NGA_98195.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
David Playing the Harp before Saul — Frans Floris I. 1555.
Medium: chiaroscuro woodcut printed from 4 blocks: black line block and three tone blocks in shades of gray-green on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 33.1 x 48.1 cm (13 1/16 x 18 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1997.2.1. Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.