Art, literature & history
The Little Buffoon
1542
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Engraving in black on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Plate/sheet: 4.5 × 8.1 cm (1 13/16 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2022.1826
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Sebald Beham. The Little Buffoon. Sebald Beham; Art Institute of Chicago; The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Little Buffoon — Sebald Beham. 1542.
Medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper. Dimensions: Plate/sheet: 4.5 × 8.1 cm (1 13/16 × 3 1/4 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.