Cimon and Pero

1544

Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

Sebald Beham, after Barthel Beham

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 7.3 × 5 cm (2 7/8 × 1 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1226

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 81, State ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Kerrich [1748-1828], Cambridge (Lugt 1568); British Museum, London (Lugt 305); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

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. 79, ii/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. 81, ii/iii.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate at upper left: 155 / HSB [artist's monogram] / in plate at lower right: CZINMON; in plate along right edge, on column: ICH LEB VON DER BRUST MEINER DOCHTER ["“I live off the breast of my daughter.”]; verso: at lower left in graphite in later hand: C.2586 / C.7287; at lower right in graphite in later hand: B. 79 / 3d state / P. 79 II

Markings

recto: none; verso: British Museum Duplicate (Lugt 305), annotated "CD" in brown ink at center; Kerrich Collection (Lugt 1568); National Gallery of Art

Wikidata ID

Q64961965

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