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The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

Sebald Beham  (German, Nuremberg 1500–1550 Frankfurt)

Period:
16th century
Date:
early to mid-16th century
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, gray and some pink wash, red chalk
Dimensions:
Diameter 8 15/16 in. (22.7 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number:
62.124.3

This artwork is part of Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Mount, recto, in graphite: 62.124.3

    Marking: The sheet bears a watermark of a serpent and bull's head which is similar to one illustrated in Edward Heawood's "Watermarks", Holland, 1960, pl. 508, no. 3784, said to date from the 15th century, and to have been found in a German MS of St. Augustine's "Orneliae ?".

  • Provenance

    Vendor: Galerie de Bayser et Strolin

  • References

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700 Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2012, cat. 32 (entry written by Stijn Alsteens); p. x, xiii (introduction written by Stijn Alsteens), p. 29 note 11, ill.

    Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680 in North American Collections." in Central European History. vol. 18, Atlanta, 1985, p. 79.



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