Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity)

1540

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

The image shows a man and a woman interacting. The woman stands, holding the man's chin, while he leans toward her. The woman has curly hair and appears unclothed. The man wears a cloth around his waist and a headscarf, with chains on his feet. The background has plain walls with a column or beam behind the man, and Latin text in the upper left corner.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with charcoal heightened with white on heavy laid paper; laid down (repair to Pero's ear)

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 39.7 x 24.1 cm (15 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1998.17.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Adolphe Mouriau (1805-1865?), Belgium (Lugt 1853); Jacqueline Strölin, Lausanne, Switzerland; purchased (via Bruno de Bayser) by Ian Woodner, New York, November 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 56.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 68.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 46.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: no. 46.

Inscriptions

recto: upper right in pen and black ink: 1540 / HSB; upper left in pen and black ink: QVO NON PENETRAT / AVT QVID NON EX: / COGOTAT PIETAS ["Where does piety not penetrate or what does it not devise."]

Markings

recto: Adolphe Mouriau (Lugt 1853)

Wikidata ID

Q64630679

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