Art, literature & history
David Playing the Harp Before Saul
c. 1508
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 25.5 × 18.5 cm (10 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1938.1573
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Lucas van Leyden. David Playing the Harp Before Saul. Lucas van Leyden; Art Institute of Chicago; Clarence Buckingham Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
David Playing the Harp Before Saul — Lucas van Leyden. c. 1508.
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 25.5 × 18.5 cm (10 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.