The Virgin and Child with a Parrot

1549

Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 7.9 × 5.6 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/16 in.) (trimmed)

  • Accession

    2012.92.546

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 23, State iii/iii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 5, 1962; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1901

  • 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. 21, iii/iii.

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. 23, iii/iii.

Inscriptions

lettered in image, at top left: 1549 / HSB; lettered in image, at top right: S. MARIA

Wikidata ID

Q76557146

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