Saint Matthew

1546

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

The image shows a full-length portrait of a standing male figure wearing a long robe and holding a sword with both hands. He has an aged face with a beard and serious expression, and his head is covered with a hood or cloth. The background includes sparse vegetation and rocks. A halo-like aura surrounds his head. Text on the image includes "S. MATHEVS" on the left, and "1546" and "ISB" on the right.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1207

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 53, State iv/vi

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. iv/vi.

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. 53, iv/vi.

Wikidata ID

Q64961920

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