Apr 18, 2024 - Sale 2666

Sale 2666 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BARTHEL BEHAM
Sleeping Child with Three Skulls.

Engraving, 1529. 43x60 mm; 1 3/4x2 1/2 inches. Trimmed on the platemark. A very good impression of this extremely scarce engraving.

This is more likely a memento mori image by Beham (1502-1540), representing the lifeless body of a child accompanied by three skulls, rather than that of a sleeping child. Bartsch 27; Pauli 35.