Riding Standard Bearer and Foot-Soldier

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Riding Standard Bearer and Foot-Soldier

Artist Barthel Beham (German, 1502-1540)

Date1521

DimensionsH. 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm): W. 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)

MediumEngraving

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Geoffrey R. Bennett

Object number

1962.44

Not on View

Label TextBarthel Beham was a native of Nuremberg and was strongly influenced, like his brother Hans Sebald Beham, by the most prominent Nuremberg artist of the day, Albrecht Dürer (see Dürer’s prints in this exhibition). It is possible, but not substantiated, that Beham trained in Dürer’s workshop. Barthel Beham’s first dated engravings, done in 1520 at the age of 18 demonstrate a remarkable technical virtuosity and an interest in complex figural poses. Through 1530 Barthel was a very active engraver, but in the service of Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria he worked increasingly as a portrait painter. He died in 1540 while on an extended trip to Italy where he is believed to have worked in Rome and Bologna in printmaker Marcantonio Raimondi’s workshop.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Special Exhibitions, Geoffrey H. Bennett Gift of Prints, October 7 to November 30, 1962. Toledo Museum of Art, Storytelling in Miniature, October 7, 2011-March 4, 2012.