Triumphal Altar with Stages in the Life of Christ, 1518

Not on View

Medium

etching (iron) with open biting, plate bitten twice, on 2 joined sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (joined): 62.5 x 21.6 cm (24 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
sheet (top): 32 x 17.3 cm (12 5/8 x 6 13/16 in.)
sheet (bottom): 30.7 x 21.6 cm (12 1/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 28, State i/ii

Accession Number

1998.51.1

Artists / Makers

Daniel Hopfer (artist) German, c. 1470 - 1536

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: DH

Provenance

Louis Galichon [1829-1893), Paris (Lugt 1060); Robert Prouté [born 1898], Paris (Lugt 2859e); (Paul Prouté, Paris); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Galichon, Louis
Prouté, Robert
Prouté, S.A., Paul

Exhibition History

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 23.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, 28, i/ii.

2009: Metzger, Christof. Daniel Hopfer: ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance : Eisenradierungen, Holzschnitte, Zeichnungen, Waffenätzungen. München: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, no. 34, i/ii.