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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8. Barthel Beham (1502-1540) Saint Christopher |
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Saint Christopher
Engraving, 1520, 69 x 48 mm., Bartsch 10, Pauli 11 ii/ii, ex collection: Grace Pugh (not in Lugt). A fairly good but somewhat later and uneven impression of this rare print (only a single impression of it has appeared at auction in the last 20 years), on laid paper, trimmed on the platemark, which is visible in places; thin spots and a tiny hole patched. Barthel was a more daring and inventive artist than his older brother, but his engraving and printing technique did not come up to Sebald's and the brilliant impressions that one sees of the latter's are all too rare in Barthel's output. But one must appreciate the inventiveness of his compositions, the odd twists of the bodies, often the very subject matter. The usual portrayal of Christopher shows him carrying the Christ Child across the river, but the moment chosen here is earlier: Christ has not yet announced himself, Christopher is merely a seated traveler and a winged putto arrives with, perhaps, a preliminary announcement, and bearing the date. Odd and fascinating.
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$900.00 |  |
