A Small World
Prints by the "Little Masters" of the Sixteenth Century
Prints by the "Little Masters" of the Sixteenth Century
- Aldegrever, Rhea Silvia
- Aldegrever, Dancing Couple
- Aldegrever , Ornament with Female Centaur
- Altdorfer , Neptune
- Altdorfer, Christ Shown
- Anonymous, Ornament with an Owl and Two Putti
- Beham, Madonna and Child
- Beham, Saint Christopher
- Beham, The Penance
- Beham, Christ and the Woman
- Beham, St. Matthew
- Beham, Cimon and Pero
- Beham, Cimon and Pero
- Beham, Hercules Battling Centaurs
- Beham, Hercules Slaying Nessus
- Beham, Hercules Killing Cacus
- Beham, Hercules Slaying Antaeus
- Beham, Infortunium (Misfortune)
- Beham, Triumphal Procession of the Noble
- Beham, The Peasants' Brawl
- Beham, Peasant Couple
- Beham, Market Peasant
- Beham, Standard Bearer
- Beham, Eight Nude Boys
- Beham, The Little Buffoon
- Beham, Ornament
- Beham, Triumphal Procession of Children
- Beham, Female Genius
- Binck , Genius on a Sea Monster
- Binck , The Fifer
- Binck/Brun, Foot Soldier
- Brosamer, The Kiss
- Brun, Urania
- Brun, October
- Brun, November
- Delaune, Combat d'Enfants
- Master I. B. , Battle of the Gladiators
- Pencz, Conversion of Saul
- Pencz, Woman with a Harp
- Pencz, Grammatica
- Pencz, Dialectica
- Pencz, Rhetorica
- after Pencz, Story of Abraham
- Sonnius, Ornament with a Motto
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15. Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550) Hercules Slaying Nessus |
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Hercules Slaying Nessus
Engraving, 1542, 51 x 78 mm., Bartsch 97, Pauli 106 v/v, from The Labors of Hercules, ex collection W. Sachs, dated 1768 (not in Lugt). An almost fine impression on laid paper trimmed on the platemark and with a white border outside the borderline all around; very pale stain in the upper left corner and two tiny abrasions at the lower left. Considering the story, this is an altogether restrained image. Hercules had carried off his soon-to-be wife Dejaneira and, coming to a river, had engaged the centaur Nessus to carry them across. While carrying Dejaneira, Nessus attempted to rape her and Hercules shot him with a poisoned arrow. Knowing he was dying, Nessus told Dejaneira to collect the remaining liquid as it would serve her as a love potion. She later used it as such and it, being actually poison, led to the death of Hercules.
