Genius on a Globe Floating in the Air, 1520

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 5.9 × 3.7 cm (2 5/16 × 1 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Pauli 'Barthel', no. 57

Accession Number

1943.3.887

Artists / Makers

Barthel Beham (artist) German, 1502 - 1540

Image Use

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Provenance

Richard von Passavant-Gontard [1852-1923], Frankfurt; (his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 10 May 1929, no. 84); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
von Passavant-Gontard, Richard

Bibliography

1911: Pauli, Gustav. Barthel Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 135. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1911: no. 57.

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. 64.