Profile Study of Two Horse Heads

c. 1528/1529

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

This is a drawing of a horse's head with a geometric framework. The left side shows a diagrammatic representation of a horse's head framed by geometric lines and shapes, illustrating a method of constructing proportions. On the right side, there is a detailed depiction of the horse's head, with intricate mane curls and emphasis on musculature and features like the eye and nostrils.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 4.8 × 9.2 cm (1 7/8 × 3 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1097

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 261, State only

Artwork history & notes

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. 219.

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. 261.

Wikidata ID

Q64961519

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