Fool and Two Bathing Women

1541

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

The image shows three individuals in an outdoor setting. The person on the left is partially seen from the waist up, reclining in a wooden tub with an arched opening above. They have intricately braided hair and a focused facial expression as they reach towards the person next to them. The middle individual is dressed in a long-sleeved garment and is depicted holding a man wearing a helmet and some sort of robe, who appears partially submerged in a circular tub. The third individual is fully shown, with curly hair. They are positioned to the right, standing on the ground, partially obscured by the tub. An elaborate decorative pitcher sits in the foreground, and a large jug is placed behind the middle figure. The background features a simple setting with a potted plant on a shelf and small rocks on the ground. The setting suggests an outdoor space with natural elements like a tree visible above the wooden structure.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 4.7 × 7.1 cm (1 7/8 × 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1094

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 219, State iii/iv


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

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. 216, iii/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. 219, iii/iv.

Wikidata ID

Q64961513

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