Two Lover Seated in Front of a Fence

1522

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

The image displays two individuals embracing from the waist up. The person on the left wears a dress with decorative patterns and hair styled with some covering, along with a necklace. The individual on the right wears a hat with a broad brim and a shirt with puffed sleeves. The environment includes dense foliage, a stylized tree, and a distinctive landscape in the background. Stylized clouds fill the sky. The image includes the initials "I&P".

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 12.7 x 8.7 cm (5 x 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1142

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 486, State ii/ii

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: no. 1229.

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. 486, ii/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q64961726

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