drawing
- Museum number
- 1920,0420.3
- Description
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St Peter denying Christ, one of a series of roundel designs for glass-paintings of scenes from the life of Christ; interior with an arched doorway, the apostle, gesticulating, sitting around a fire with Caiaphas(?), the high priest, and a serving-maid, the cock sits on a pole above, circular. 1522
Pen and brown ink, with grey wash
- Production date
- 1522
- Dimensions
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Height: 231 millimetres
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Width: 231 millimetres (circular)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- J. Rowlands, 'Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century, and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530', London, BM Press, 1993,no. 75:
'Together with 1920,0420.2, this belongs to a series of roundel designs for glass-paintings of scenes from the life of Christ. At least twenty-five drawings of varying quality associated with the series survive. All were originally of the same dimensions, and some, like the present one, are dated 1522 by the artist himself. Most print-rooms in Europe possess some of the series. The National Museum in Stockholm has one of the largest groups (Bjurström, ‘German Drawings’, nos. 11-16, repr.). Both the present drawing and 1920,0420.2 are of average quality, but are sufficiently well executed to be by Beham himself, rather than an assistant. In the best designs, of which ‘The multiplication of bread and fish’ in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (BM ‘Dürer and Holbein’, p. 123, no. 92, repr.) is a prime example, the pen-work is confidently done and coloured wash applied with care to produce an attractive result. Colour notes and indications of the leading are often added; although the presence of such notes does not necessarily indicate that a corresponding glass-painting was produced. A glass-painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 11.93.10) based on the finely executed ‘Christ before Pilate’ drawn with pen and brown ink alone, without notes of any kind (BM inv.no 1997,0712.10).'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1920
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1920,0420.3
