Auction 320: Prints | 17 November 2023
Hans Sebald Beham

The Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns

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Auction 320
Lot 209N
Hans Sebald Beham
1500 Nürnberg – Frankfurt/Main 1550
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Woodcut on laid paper with watermark “pinecone with shield and crown” (Meder watermark 183). (Around 1520). 50.3 x 33.4 cm (sheet size).

Result: € 5,080*

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Details

Bartsch App. 26-7 (Dürer), Pauli 829 II a (from II b), Hollstein 829 II (from II).

Description

Excellent print, somewhat dry in the left margin, which suggests that it was created around 1600 due to the watermark. With the crack in the wooden block on the right and the Dürer monogram at the bottom center. The woodcut is one of the artist’s early works, which was entirely dominated by Dürer’s influence. The woodcut was formerly attributed to Dürer (see Bartsch App. 26, 27). It was only in the 17th century that the Nuremberg art dealer Johann Hauer recognized in his comments on Dürer’s prints that the depiction could be attributed to Sebald Beham. – Paper yellowed evenly and with some foxing. Horizontal and vertical creases as well as partially closed tears around the edges. Remnants of a former mount on the reverse. In good overall condition.

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

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