Bookplate of Hieronymus Baumgartner

c. 1530

Barthel Beham

Artist, German, 1502 - 1540

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.7 × 7 cm (3 7/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 10.6 × 8.7 cm (4 3/16 × 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.19

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Pauli 'Barthel', no. 89, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773); Rudolf Gutmann [1880-1966], Vienna (Lugt 2770) [1]; (Christian M. Nebehay, Vienna); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1948; gift to NGA, 1948.
[1] This print is inventory no. 838 of the Rudolf Gutmann collection confiscated by the Nazis in Austria in 1938. The collection was stored at the Zentraldepot in Vienna and transferred to the salt mine at Alt Aussee. The print was restituted to the Viennese dealer Christian Nebehay acting on Gutmann’s behalf in August 1947 (Restitution decision in Zl. 4716/47; export license in Zl 4694/47 dated 11 August 1947, all Bundesdenkmalamt, Vienna, copies in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 29.

1983

  • Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, no. 101, repro.

Bibliography

1911

  • Pauli, Gustav. Barthel Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 135. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1911: no. 89, state i/ii.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Barthel Beham, compiled by Anne Röver-Kann). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2021: no. 102, state i/ii.

Inscriptions

at left, in margin outside of image, in plate: stat sua cuiq[ue] dies, breve & irreparabile tempus. [Baumgartner's latin motto]; at top, in margin outside of image, in plate: [hebrew text of Baumgartner's motto]; at right, in margin outside of image, in plate: [greek text of Baumgartner's motto]; at bottom, in margin outside of image, in plate: HIERONYMVS BAVMGARTNER SSQ

Wikidata ID

Q65070949

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