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Judgment of Solomon with the Arms of Anthony Kempfen and Madeline Obersteg

Swiss (Artist)
1602
colored, stained, and painted glass

Panel of armorial stained glass

Inscription

[Inscription] painted in black in cartouche above central scene: Kinig Salomon urtheilt recht / Zwischen 2 Frowē also schecht [King Solomon judges truly between two women sent {to him}]; [inscription] painted in black in cartouche below central scene: Anthoni Kempfen und / Madlen Ober Steg sin/Eheliche Husfraw 1602 [Anthony Kempfen [Kämpfen] and Madeline Obersteg, his wife, 1602]

Provenance
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Collection of Countess de Bourg [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; with Jacques Seligmann & Co., Paris and New York, by 1906 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.

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Measurements

Overall including frame: H.19 5/8 x W. 15 in. (50 x 38 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1906

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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46.47

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