Emperor Charles V

1531

Barthel Beham

Associated Names
Barthel Beham

Artist, German, 1502 - 1540

The image is an engraving depicting an upper body portrait of a man viewed from a side profile. The man is looking to the right, with his head slightly tilted upward. He has a full beard and mustache, and a prominent nose. The man is wearing a hat that covers his curly hair, and elaborate robes or garments with intricate patterns, particularly on his shoulders and down the front. He is also wearing a necklace with a large pendant. The background features fine horizontal lines for texture, and below the portrait is an engraved Latin text.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.7 × 13.7 cm (8 1/8 × 5 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 21.1 × 14 cm (8 5/16 × 5 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.890

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Pauli 'Barthel', no. 90, State iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

British Museum (duplicate, Lugt 300 and 305); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1946

  • Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, Auburn, NY, 1946, no cat.

1950

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, circulated by the American Federation of Arts to 11 venues (California Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Museum of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI; The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Museum of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN; and Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN), 1950-1952, no cat.

1952

  • Etchings and Other Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, 1952-1953, no cat.

1953

  • The Collector's Taste, Andrew Dickinson White Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1953-1954.

Bibliography

1911

  • Pauli, Gustav. Barthel Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 135. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1911: no. 90, state iv/iv.

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. 104, state iv/iv.

Wikidata ID

Q64954144

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