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Virgin and Child with Parrot

Sebald Beham and Barthel Beham

Virgin and Child with Parrot

1548

Scroll

Virgin and Child with Parrot

1548

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 81 × 57 mm. (3 3/16 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Alfred R. and Henry G. Riggs in Memory of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number 1943.32.33
In reverse after Barthel Beham engraving of same subject (Pauli/Hollstein 8).
P. Gellatly (Lugt 1185)

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper left, in plate "1549 / [monogram HSB]"; in image, upper right, in plate ".S. MARIA" Verso: center in graphite "lea vierge au / parroquet / [indecipherable]"; lower right in graphite "Beham / Vierge au parroquet / B. 19."

Markings: CM: Peter Gellatly (Lugt 1185); Lawrason Riggs (Lugt 1756c)

Artist

Sebald Beham

1499–1549

German, 1500-1550
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Artist

Barthel Beham

1501–1539

German, 1502-1540
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