Plate with David Anointed by Samuel – Byzantine – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464379
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collection/search/500709 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/500709 Link
Until 1899, collection of Henry Hoffmann (1823-1897), Paris; May 1899, purchased by Henri de Morgan at the Hoffmann sale at Hôtel Drouot, Paris (lot 78); 1899-1901, collection of Henri de Morgan (1854-1909), Paris; acquired in 1901, purchased at the de Morgan sale at the American Art Galleries, New York (lot 67)
Painter has chosen a later moment in the Troilos story than the Painter of London B
collection/search/436139 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436139 Link
For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003)
collection/search/436574 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436574 Link
Inscription: (central medallion (A), front, on scroll of Moses, center): SIC . ERIT . VITA . TVA . PENDENS / . ANE . N . CREDES . VITE . TVE (Thus your life will hang in the balance before [you], you will not be sure of your life [Deuteronomy 28:66])(central medallion (A), front, on upper left scroll): SICVT
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collection/search/846920 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/846920 Link
collection/search/323530 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/323530 Link
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capture of Carthage by Publius Cornelius Scipio, an event that took place in 146 B.C
collection/search/437795 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437795 Link