Judith with the Head of Holofernes

c. 1525/1527

Barthel Beham

Artist, German, 1502 - 1540

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 8.4 × 6.7 cm (3 5/16 × 2 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.885

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Pauli 'Barthel', no. 4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 23, repro.

Bibliography

1911

  • Pauli, Gustav. Barthel Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 135. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1911: no. 4.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.23.

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. 4.

Inscriptions

upper right, in image, in pen and ink by later hand: AG

Wikidata ID

Q64954120

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