Hercules Abducting Iole

1544

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

This print shows a battle scene with some people on horseback and some on the ground. In the center, the two horses charge at each other. On the right, a man in a crown sits on one of the horses, holding what looks like a long tree branch. Two people sit atop the horse on the left; the person in the front holds a long stick or club in one hand and a shield in the other, and their face is obscured by their upraised arm. Behind them, a nude person with long hair holds onto the person in front. This nude person also wears a crown. Below the hooves of the horses, two bodies are on the ground. On the left and right are two other people with weapons facing the center, one on the left with a bow and arrow and one on the right wielding a fish-shaped object. The scene is framed with foliage and cross-hatched lines. At the top is a horizontal scroll with text on it.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. Paul J. Sachs

  • Accession Number

    1941.2.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 106, State i/iv


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773)

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. 107, i/iv.

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. 106, i/iv.

Wikidata ID

Q64961386

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