The Weather Peasant Facing Left

1542

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

The image shows a person standing with their back to the viewer. The individual has their hands behind their back, looking to the left. Their facial features are in profile, with a defined nose and a slightly weathered appearance. They wear a close-fitting hat, a long coat with a large pocket, knee-length trousers, and sturdy boots with straps. The person holds a whip behind their back. In the background, there is a rustic fence and sparse vegetation. A decorative banner with text is above and beside the person.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 4.5 x 3 cm (1 3/4 x 1 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.60.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 204, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 2.

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. 190, i/ii.

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 2.

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. 204, i/ii.

Inscriptions

across top in plate, on banderole: DAS.SCHAD ET.NIT; center left in plate: HSB

Wikidata ID

Q75122070

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