Sebald Beham Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Sebald Beham (1500–1550) was a German painter and printmaker, mainly known for his very small engravings. Born in Nuremberg, he spent the later part of his career in Frankfurt. He was one of the most important of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making prints in the generation after Dürer. His name is often given as Hans Sebald Beham, although there is no documentary evidence that he ever used this  additional forename.He produced approximately 252 engravings, 18 etchings and 1500 woodcuts, including woodcut book illustrations. He worked extensively on tiny, highly detailed, engravings, many as small as postage stamps, placing him in the German printmaking school known as the "Little Masters" from the size of their prints. These works he printed and published himself, while his much larger woodcuts were mostly commissioned work. The engravings found a ready market among German bourgeois collectors. He also made prints for use as playing cards and  wallpaper. His engravings cover a range of subjects, but he is especially known for scenes of peasant life, and scenes from classical myth or history, both often with an erotic element. His early work was done under the shadow of Dürer, who was still working in Nuremberg, and one early woodcut "Head of Christ", to which the "AD" monogram was added in the second state (though probably not by Beham), was long misattributed to Dürer by Adam Bartsch and others. He also borrowed from his brother Barthel's rather more original works. In his later work he boldly re-interpreted many of Dürer's most famous prints in works such as his Melancholia of 1539, exploiting the difference in scale between his work and the original. His dark backgrounds may have been inspired by Italian Niello prints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebald_Beham

Standard Bearer and Drummer

   title: Standard Bearer and Drummer
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1941

Goldsmith's model for a bowl with a representation of Roman Charity

   title: Goldsmith's model for a bowl with a representation of Roman Charity
   department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
   accessionYear: 1917

The Circumcision of Christ

   title: The Circumcision of Christ
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1995

The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

   title: The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1962

The Return of the Prodigal Son

   title: The Return of the Prodigal Son
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1919

Jug

   title: Jug
   department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
   accessionYear: 1911

Entry of Charles V into Munich, June 10, 1530

   title: Entry of Charles V into Munich, June 10, 1530
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1954

Joachim Receiving the Promise of the Birth of the Virgin