Emperor Charles V, 1531

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 20.9 x 13.8 cm (8 1/4 x 5 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Pauli 'Barthel', no. 90, State iii/iv

Accession Number

1945.5.42

Artists / Makers

Barthel Beham (artist) German, 1502 - 1540

Image Use

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Provenance

by 1805, Franz Rechberger [1771-1841], Vienna (Lugt 2133); Albertina Museum (duplicate, Lugt 5g); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1945; gift to NGA, 1945.

Associated Names

Albertina
Rechberger, Franz
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

2000: The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2000-2001.

Bibliography

1911: Pauli, Gustav. Barthel Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 135. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1911: no. 90, state iii/iv.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Barthel Beham, compiled by Anne Röver-Kann). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2021: no. 104, state iii/iv.