Saint Christopher

c. 1520

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

The image shows two figures. One figure, larger and at the center, stands in shallow water mid-stride while holding a long staff. The figure has a long beard, facial features are prominent, and hair is covered with a head wrap. The person wears a robe, cloak, and has a pouch on the side. A smaller figure, a child, sits on the larger figure's shoulder, holding a small object and depicted with rays from its head. Another hooded figure stands on the shore, looking at the larger figure and holding a staff with a cylindrical item. The background shows a landscape with trees, hills, a sun, moon, and a simple setting.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    block: 30.1 x 21.6 cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 30.7 x 22.2 cm (12 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2003.48.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 354, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kupferstichkabinet, Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1607 and deacession stamp, Lugt 2482); Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin [1825 - 1879], Leipzig (Lugt 2612); (August Laube, Zurich); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1808: vol. 7 (Dürer), no. App. 16, p. 179.

1911

  • Pauli, Gustav. Hans Sebald Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche, Radierungen und Holzschnitte. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte_ 33. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1901: no. 892 alpha.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Sebald Beham, Anne Röver-Kann, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2024: no. 354.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: 4714 - 1877 / B. App. 16; by later hand, lower right in graphite: B. App. 16 B. 116 H. 2013

Wikidata ID

Q76357394

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