Adam Seated

1519

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

This is a drawing of a seated, muscular, nude male figure holding an apple, positioned atop a tree stump with a large tree trunk in the background. In the scene, there is a pastoral landscape with plants and a castle or estate with turrets visible behind the figure. The drawing is detailed, featuring fine anatomical details in the figure and intricate foliage and background elements. The artwork suggests a focus on natural and human form typical of renascent art.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1157

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 1, State iii/iii

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. 1, iii/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. 1, iii/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q64961794

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