Lazarus with the rich man
| Reference: | S20969 |
| Author | Hans Leonard Schäufelein |
| Year: | 1520 ca. |
| Measures: | 164 x 216 mm |
€450.00
| Reference: | S20969 |
| Author | Hans Leonard Schäufelein |
| Year: | 1520 ca. |
| Measures: | 164 x 216 mm |
€450.00
Description
Woodcut, circa 1520, signed with the monogram with the shovel at lower left.
Dives and Lazarus; Lazarus seated in right foreground with two dogs licking his sores; on a covered terrace above Dives and a female figure being served with food by three male figures; above Abraham with Lazarus and Dives burning in hell.
The subject, known as Lazarus and the rich man, is a parable of Jesus told only in the Gospel according to Luke 16:19-31. It is also known as the parable of the rich man and the beggar Lazarus, or simply as the parable of the rich man epulone.
A good impression, printed on contemporary paper and trimmed to the borderline, a small worm hole at the lower right corner, otherwise in good conditions.
Rare.
Bibliografia
Hollstein, German engravings, etchings and woodcuts c.1400-1700 (13); Dodgson 1903, 1911, Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (II.48.215); Bartsch, Le Peintre graveur (VII.249.16).
Hans Leonard Schäufelein (Norimberga, 1480 - ivi, 1540)
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Painter, designer of woodcuts and stained glass. Nuremberg, Nördlingen and Augsburg have each been proposed as his place of birth, and it has also been suggested that he could have studied in Nördlingen with Friedrich Herlin, leaving for Nuremberg after Herlin died in 1500 (Weih-Kruger, 1986). Schäufelein’s robust figures and the hearty tone of his work suggest that his origins were in Swabia. Yet a close connection with the merchant family Scheufelin, who settled first in Nördlingen and then in Nuremberg and Geneva, has been refuted. Schäufelein was active in Albrecht Dürer’s workshop in Nuremberg from c. 1503 to 1507 and in Hans Holbein the elder’s workshop in Augsburg in 1507–8. He journeyed to southern Tyrol between 1508 and 1510 and was back in Augsburg from 1511 to at least 1514. From 1515 until his death he was the municipal painter of Nördlingen. The middle name Leonhard, often used in the literature, does not appear in the early documents, nor is its use supported by Schäufelein’s monogram, the ligated letters H and S with a small shovel (Ger. kleine Schaufel=Schäufelein). Schäufelein paid taxes in Nördlingen for the last time in 1539; the following year they were paid by his widow.
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Hans Leonard Schäufelein (Norimberga, 1480 - ivi, 1540)
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Painter, designer of woodcuts and stained glass. Nuremberg, Nördlingen and Augsburg have each been proposed as his place of birth, and it has also been suggested that he could have studied in Nördlingen with Friedrich Herlin, leaving for Nuremberg after Herlin died in 1500 (Weih-Kruger, 1986). Schäufelein’s robust figures and the hearty tone of his work suggest that his origins were in Swabia. Yet a close connection with the merchant family Scheufelin, who settled first in Nördlingen and then in Nuremberg and Geneva, has been refuted. Schäufelein was active in Albrecht Dürer’s workshop in Nuremberg from c. 1503 to 1507 and in Hans Holbein the elder’s workshop in Augsburg in 1507–8. He journeyed to southern Tyrol between 1508 and 1510 and was back in Augsburg from 1511 to at least 1514. From 1515 until his death he was the municipal painter of Nördlingen. The middle name Leonhard, often used in the literature, does not appear in the early documents, nor is its use supported by Schäufelein’s monogram, the ligated letters H and S with a small shovel (Ger. kleine Schaufel=Schäufelein). Schäufelein paid taxes in Nördlingen for the last time in 1539; the following year they were paid by his widow.
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