The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 6, 2023

Mucius Scaevola Holding His Hand in the Fire

c. 1520

Hans Sebald Beham

(German, 1500–1550)

Germany, 16th century

Etching

Sheet: 6.7 x 5.2 cm (2 5/8 x 2 1/16 in.); Platemark: 6.7 x 5.2 cm (2 5/8 x 2 1/16 in.)

Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund 2014.4

Catalogue raisonné: Pauli 85

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Verso, collector's stamp in blue ink: CH PROTECTOR MEUS (letters stamped around inside perimeter of an oval with three medlar blooms in center) Verso, along right edge, in graphite: Ch 1-7-80 N 308; left edge in graphite: TOO S 7; bottom edge, in graphite: P. 85; lower center quadrant, in graphite: 84 encircled

Provenance
d'Arenberg, Brussels (Lugt 567); Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, The Little Masters of Nuremberg Sale 445, June 6, 2013, lot 626, € 1,300
C H(RISTUS). PROTECTOR MEUS Lower Rhine-Westphalian-Belgian dukes originating in Arenberg (Aremberg) in the county of Adenau/Ahr 40000
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2014.4