# The Agony in the Garden

**Sebald Beham** (German, 1500–1550)  
1522  
woodcut

Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1943.3.1147. [The museum's record](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.4365.html).

## About this work

Sebald Beham made this in 1522, aged 22. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

### What you’re looking at

The image shows a central person standing with both arms raised. They have a long beard, aged appearance, long hair, and wear a robe. Three other individuals are around them, reclining or lying on the ground. The setting is an outdoor scene with detailed trees and vegetation. There are initials "I.SP" in the top right corner.

_Description from the National Gallery of Art._

### How it was made

- **Woodcut.** A relief print. The block is cut away around the lines, so the lines stand up to take the ink, and the sheet is pressed onto them.

### [Sebald Beham](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/sebald-beham)

German, 1500–1550

Sebald Beham trained in Nuremberg in the orbit of Dürer and was one of the “Little Masters”, engravers known for tiny, finely worked plates of biblical, mythological and peasant subjects. In 1525 he, his brother Barthel and Georg Pencz were tried and banished from the city as the “godless painters” for their radical religious views. He later settled in Frankfurt, where he worked prolifically on engravings, woodcuts and book illustrations.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Print
- The artist was 22
- Century: 16th century
- Subjects: plant, Tree, Christ, Costume, Man
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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