The Weather Peasant Facing Right

1542

Sebald Beham

Associated Names
Sebald Beham

Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

This is a drawing of a figure facing away, holding a forked object. The composition shows a person from behind, dressed in a coat and boots, standing on a rocky ground with some vegetation around. The figure holds a long forked implement over the shoulder, while a bag appears at their side on the ground. Above their head, a banner with text unfolds, displaying "ES IST KALT WETER." The drawing is monochromatic, utilizing linework to convey texture and form, suggestive of a woodcut or engraving style. The letters "HSB" can be seen in the design.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth B. Benedict

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 4.6 x 3 cm (1 13/16 x 1 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.60.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 203, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington; bequest to NGA, 1994.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 1.

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. 189, i/ii.

1994

  • A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 1.

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. 203, i/ii.

Inscriptions

across top in plate, on banderole: ES IST KALT WETER; upper left in plate: 15; upper right in plate: 42; center right in plate: HSB

Wikidata ID

Q75122069

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