Auction 329: Prints | 15 November 2024
Hans Sebald Beham

The Lady and the death

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Hans Sebald Beham
1500 Nürnberg – Frankfurt/Main 1550
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Engraving on laid paper. (1541). 8 x 5.3 cm (full sheet).

Result: € 3,048*

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Details

Bartsch VIII, 174, no. 149; Pauli 150 III (of III); Hollstein 150 III (of III).

Description

A fine impression with the added blade of grass next to the flower pot and a fine margin around the borderlines. The full-length female figure in profile to the right, with Death in a jester’s costume lurking behind her, handing her flowers and an hourglass. Paper faintly stained on the reverse, otherwise in very good condition. Rare!

Period

15th-18th Century

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