Child with Three Skulls

1529

Barthel Beham

Associated Names
Barthel Beham

Artist, German, 1502 - 1540

The image shows four skulls of different sizes and a human figure intertwined among them. The color palette is monochrome with sepia tones. The largest skull is centered, flanked by the other skulls, while the figure's head is positioned behind and above. An hourglass is faintly visible at the top right corner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 4.2 × 5.8 cm (1 5/8 × 2 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 4.4 × 6 cm (1 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.45.2244

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Pauli 'Barthel', no. 35, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Howard C. Levis, London (Lugt 1330); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA; gift to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1911

  • Pauli, Gustav. Barthel Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 135. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1911: no. 35.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Barthel Beham, compiled by Anne Röver-Kann). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2021: no. 35, state i/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q74033589

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