Martin Luther

1523

Daniel Hopfer

Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Postle Heseltine [b. 1843] London (Lugt 1508). (C.G. Boerner, Berlin, 1981, stock no. 10339). Private collection, Germany; (sale, Venator & Hanstein, Cologne, September 21, 2018, lot 16); (C.G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2021 by NGA.

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Exhibition History

2022

  • The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, 96, i/ii.

1971

  • C.G. Boerner, Neue Lagerliste 75 (1981), no. 7

2009

  • Metzger, Christof. Daniel Hopfer: ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance : Eisenradierungen, Holzschnitte, Zeichnungen, Waffenätzungen. München: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, no. 102, i/iv.

Inscriptions

below image, in plate: Des lutters gestalt mag wol verderbenn / Sein cristlich gemiet wirt nymer sterben [Luther’s figure will decay, his Christian spirit will never die.] / M.D.XXIII. D [Hopfer family pine cone symbol] H; by later hand in graphite on verso, Boerner stock no. 10339

Markings

John Postle Heseltine [b. 1843] London (Lugt 1508)

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