# Pacientia (Patience), in Sebald Beham

Sebald Beham made this in 1540, aged 40. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Patience, personified as a winged woman, tenderly holds a lamb, an emblem of meek endurance, while a dragon-like monster lurks beside her and putti fly in with a laurel branch beneath her name, PACIENTIA.

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## The work

- Date: 1540
- Medium: engraving
- Type: Print
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1943.3.1072
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[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.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Sebald Beham's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-sebald-beham?hang=750) (8 works)
- [More Northern Renaissance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/northern-renaissance?hang=750) (62 works)
- [16th-century Germany](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/16-germany?hang=750) (28 works)

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