David Dancing Before the Ark of the Covenant
ArtistAttributed to
Anton Eisenhoit
German, 1553/1554–1603
Datecirca 1575
MediumSilver
Dimensions6 x 6 1/2 in. (15.2 x 16.5 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Drs. Abram and Frances Pascher Kanof
Object number83.4
On View
On view[1] Listed as the lender of the object to the 1906 exhibition at the Kaiser Friedrich-Museums, Berlin.Published ReferencesAustellung von Werken Alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitgelder des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins (exhibition catalogue) (Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins, 1906), cat. no. 337.
Otto van Falke, Die Kunstsammlung Eugen Gutmann (Berlin, 1912), 48, illus. pl. 40.
Helen Silver, "Permanent Judaica Collection is Mounted at North Carolina Museum," St. Louis Jewish Light (September 19, 1984), 19, illus.
Saints and Heroes (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1987), discussed 21, illus. (b-w) 21, fig. 16.
Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture (exhibition catalogue), Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1996), cat. no. 31, illus. (b-w).
Exhibition HistoryBerlin, Germany, Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins, "Austellung von Werken Alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitgelder des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins," January 27–March 4, 1906, cat. no. 337.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery, "Saints and Heroes," November 14, 1987-July 24, 1988, 21, illus. (b-w) 21, fig. 16.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Sepphoris in Galilee: Crosscurrents of Culture," November 16, 1996-July 6, 1997; Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Museum of Art, September 7-December 14, 1997; Atlanta, GA, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, January 24-April 12, 1998, cat. no. 31, illus. (b-w).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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