The Lady and Death

1541

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

In the image, there are two figures standing closely together. The left figure is a woman in a long, detailed dress with a patterned cap and gathered fabric around her neck. The figure on the right is skeletal, wearing a hood and holding an hourglass and bouquet of flowers. A wooden fence and a plant in a vase are in the background. The image includes engraved text with the date "1541" and initials "IsB" at the top and left side.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1079

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 157, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 160); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1975

  • Death, Love, and the Maiden, University of Pittsburgh, 1975, no. 42.

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. 150, i/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. 157, i/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q64961463

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