Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus

Georg Pencz

Associated Names
Georg Pencz

Artist, German, c. 1500 - 1550

This is a drawing of two figures under a canopy of tree branches. One figure is muscular and nude with a crown holding a sword. The other figure is armored and presents a decapitated head to the crowned figure. The drawing is detailed with texture and fabric.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.6719

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 120, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

W. Meyer [19th century]; (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 890); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 29, repro.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.29.

1993

  • Wolfthal, Diane. "'A Hue and a Cry': Medieval Rape Imagery and Its Transformation," Art Bulletin, March 1993, fig. 31, p. 63.

1999

  • Wolfthal, Diane. _ Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and Its Alternatives_. Cambridge, 1999: 122, fig. 73.

Wikidata ID

Q65020053

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