ARTIST: Barthel
Beham (1502-1540)
TITLE: The Judgment of Paris
MEDIUM: Original Engraving
IMAGE SIZE: 2 1/8" x 2 1/8" (5.4 x 5.4 cm)
FRAMED SIZE: 19 ¼" x 19 ¼" (48.9
x 48.9 cm)
CONDITION: This work is in excellent condition, this piece
is a fine dark black impression with a strong plate mark
PRICE: $1,500
Painter, engraver,
etcher and possibly designer of woodcuts, brother of (1)
Sebald Beham. He is best known
for his painted portraits and for his superb small engravings
of Classical themes. The year of his birth is verified
in a portrait of 1531 by Ludwig Neufahrer (d 1563), which
gives Barthel’s age as 29. His early works (c. 1520)
are engravings obviously influenced in choice of subject,
composition and graphic means by Albrecht Dürer and
by his brother Sebald, both of whom are considered to
have been his teachers. Barthel’s interest in antiquity,
as transmitted through the engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi,
is evident as early as 1524 in subjects that are Classically
inspired and erotic (e.g. Cimon and Pero, B. 11; Cleopatra,
B. 12) and in figures that, though still in Dürer’s
manner, are fuller in form. Barthel’s representations
of peasants (1524; B. 46, 47) continued the tradition
of small engravings featuring one or two peasants begun
by Dürer around 1497 (B. 89–90) and continued
by Sebald Beham (B. 191–5). If Röttinger’s
attribution to Barthel of a dozen or so woodcuts (Geisberg,
nos 251–62) is correct (Stewart, 1993, favours Sebald),
then it would seem that in the 1530s the brothers developed
this theme into large woodcuts depicting rural festivals,
with many peasants celebrating together. These works are
uncharacteristically clumsy, perhaps due to lack of skill
on the woodcutters’ part. Altogether Barthel created
92 engravings and etchings, the subjects and styles of
which often coincide wth Sebald’s, and indeed vice
versa, for his elder but longer-lived brother often used
Barthel’s designs as models in later years. The intaglio
prints are small and finely engraved, but only a few bear
his monogram. As with Sebald, the form of this changed
from an early BP, reflecting Nuremberg dialect, to BB
from 1531.
Part of the
Beham family
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