Silenus

Hieronymus Hopfer

Artist, German, active c. 1520 - 1550 or after

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.6 x 22.4 cm (6 1/8 x 8 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 17.9 x 24 cm (7 1/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.97.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 32, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Graphische Sammlung, Munich (Lugt 1614). (James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

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. 39.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, no. 32, i/ii.

Wikidata ID

Q76342354


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