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Currently not on display

Sebald Beham

Nürnberg, 1500 - Frankfurt am Main, 1550

Old Man Caressing a Young Woman

Date ca. 1530
Materials and Techniques chiaroscuro woodcut
Size(cm) 24.6 x 24.3
Standard ref. Geisberg 901; Hollstein vol. 3, 1236III, p. 249, vol. 23, 37II, p. 35.
Category Prints
Collection Number G.1993-0001

Provenance

Agnew, London; Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt; Purchased by the NMWA, 1994.

Exhibition History

1997
Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 59
2011
Fantastic Nature: Northern Prints before Rembrandt, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2011 - 12 June 2011, cat. no. 41
2017
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 28 January 2017 - 16 April 2017, cat. no. 70-b, col. repr.

Bibliography

1954
Hollstein, Friedrich W. H. German Engravings, Etching and Woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700, Vol. III: Hans Sebald Beham. Amsterdam, M. Hertzberger, 1954, 1236III, p. 249.
1989
Old and Modern Master Prints (exh. cat.). London, Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., 1989, no. 9.
1989
Katalog 25. Frankfurt am Main, Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, 1989, no. 2.
1996
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 27-28 (April 1992-March 1994), 1996, List of New Acquisitions. p. 73.
2016
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation (exh. cat.). Messling, Guido; Shinfuji Atsushi, eds. Tokyo, TBS Television, 2016, pp. 188-189, 283, cat. no. 70-b, col. repr.

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