Christ Crowned with Thorns Speaking with His Mother

1519

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

The image depicts two individuals: one seen from the back with a muscular build, wearing a crown of thorns and shoulder-length wavy hair, unclothed from the waist up, and the other facing forward with delicate features, wrapped hands, and wearing a headscarf. The person on the left stands in front, with a hand on their chest, and the setting shows a simple ledge or platform. Radiant lines emerge from behind the person on the right. The artwork is monochromatic, featuring fine linework for texture and shading.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1945.5.43

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 34, State only

Artwork history & notes

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; Hans Sebald Beham: Nachträge zu dem kritischen Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche, Radierungen und Holzschnitte. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte_ 134. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1911: no. 28a.

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. 34.

Wikidata ID

Q65025520

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