Saint Christopher

1520

Barthel Beham

Artist, German, 1502 - 1540

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 6.8 × 4.8 cm (2 11/16 × 1 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.878

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Pauli 'Barthel', no. 11, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden (duplicate, Lugt 1617, 1618, and 2923); Richard von Passavant-Gontard [1852-1923], Frankfurt; (his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 10 May 1929, no. 36); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 36, repro.

Bibliography

1911

  • Pauli, Gustav. Barthel Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 135. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1911: no. 11, state ii/ii.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Barthel Beham, compiled by Anne Röver-Kann). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2021: no. 10, state ii/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q64954102

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