The 50 plates / Plate 43 of 50
Plate 43 of 50
The Tribute Money
Der Zinsgroschen
Venetian School
Not yet located
The drawing
A biblical scene depicting Christ confronted by religious authorities over the payment of taxes to Caesar (Matthew 22:15–22). Christ stands near the center, gesturing toward a coin presented by a bearded figure at right, while disciples and other observers gather around him. The foreground figures are rendered with confident pen lines and dark hatching, while the architecture and additional figures in the background remain lightly sketched.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Venetian School, c. 1560
- Title as printed
- Der Zinsgroschen
- Title in English
- Venetian School, c. 1560, The Tribute Money
- Date
- c. 1560, according to Becker.
- Medium and size
- Pen and wash, 19 × 30 cm
- Collection in 1922
- Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Lützschena
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Not yet located
- Where is it now?
- Not yet located. No post-Becker museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing.
- Attribution today
- Venetian School, c. 1560, as classified by Becker. No independent modern attribution to a named artist has been verified.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 43.
- No later museum or auction record has been securely identified with this drawing so far.