The Prodigal Son Tending the Swine

1540

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

This is a drawing of a landscape with a figure leaning on a staff among a group of pigs in a wooded area. The foreground has several trees and the background shows rocky outcrops and distant hills. The style is detailed with precise line work, capturing the texture of the landscape, the fur of the pigs, and the folds in the figure's garments. The drawing's composition conveys a pastoral setting with a sense of harmony and serenity, while the Latin inscription at the top adds an additional layer of historical or narrative context to the artwork.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1196

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 30, State v/vi


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. 35, v/vi.

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. 30, v/vi.

Wikidata ID

Q64961900

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