Death and Three Nude Women

Sebald Beham and Barthel Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

Barthel Beham

Artist, German, 1502 - 1540

The image shows four figures displayed from head to toe. Three are fully nude women, and one is a skeleton. The women have nondescript facial features - one with hair tied back, one with braided hair, and one with loose flowing hair. No clothing is visible. One woman faces the viewer, while others face each other or the skeleton. The skeleton stands in the back-left, facing the women. The women have different postures - one mostly back to the viewer, one sideways with a cloth on her arm, and one facing the skeleton. Near their feet are a disembodied head and other unclear objects. The background is plain with textured hatch shading, emphasizing the figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1081

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 154, State ii/iii


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 131, repro.

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. 152, ii/iii.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.131.

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. 154, ii/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q64961467

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