Eve Seated
1519
Medium
engraving
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.9336
Art Historical Context
### Eve Seated by Sebald Beham Step into the intricate world of Northern Renaissance printmaking with *Eve Seated*, a delicate engraving created by Sebald Beham 1519. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald CollectionDepartment CG-E), this captures the biblical figure of Eve in a poised, seated nude pose, exemplifying the era's fascination with the human form. Beham, a Nuremberg artist and one of the celebrated "Little Masters," specialized in small-scale works that rivaled larger paintings in detail and expressiveness. Engraving, Beham's chosen medium, involved incising fine lines...
About the Artist
Sebald Beham · 1500–1550
Sebald Beham (1500–1550), a pioneering German printmaker and painter born in Nuremberg, emerged as one of the most prolific artists of the Northern Renaissance. The elder brother of fellow artist Barthel Beham, he grew up in a milieu steeped in artistic tradition, though details of his early training remain sparsely documented. Recorded as a journeyman painter (Malergeselle) by 1521 and a master w...