The Circumcision of Christ

Sebald Beham  (German, Nuremberg 1500–1550 Frankfurt)

Date:
1510–50
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk.
Dimensions:
Diameter 22.3 cm. (8 3/4 in.)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Anonymous gift, 1995
Accession Number:
1995.470
  • Provenance

    Eugène Rodrigues (Paris 1853-?1928); Frederik Muller (Dutch, 1883–1944), July 12-13, 1921, lot 7(as by Hans Sebald Beham); Christie's, London, July 7, 1992, no. 264; Donor: Anonymous Gift , 1995

  • References

    Barbara Butts, Lee Hendrix Painting on Light: Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000, Also refers to two pot-metal stained glass windows at the Metropolitan that are based on the same series of drawings of the Life of Christ (ca. 1522): 11.93.10 & 11.93.11., fig. no. 50, p. 181, ill.

    Frederik Muller Collection R...de Paris Principalement des Écoles des Pays-Bas et de L'Allemagne Catalogue d'Une Vente Importante de Dessins Anciens. F. Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, July 12-13, 1921, cat. no. 7, fig. no. 7, p. 2, ill.

    Karl Theodore Parker Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 Vols., Oxford, 1938, cat. no. under no. 274, vol. 1: p. 117.

    George R. Goldner with help from Lee Hendrix and Gloria Williams The J. Paul Getty Museum. European Drawings: Catalogue of the Collections. J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1988, cat. no. V.II, under 116, p. 268; note 2.

    Christie's, London Old Master Drawings [Sale cat: July 7, 1992]. 1992, cat. no. 264, fig. no. 264, pp. 122-123, ill.



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