Emperor Maximilian I
1508/1518
Artist, German, 1473 - 1531
Artist, Flemish, 1485 - 1544
Artwork overview
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Medium
chiaroscuro woodcut in green printed from two blocks
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (trimmed to image): 32.5 × 22.7 cm (12 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1948.11.14
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 323, State iv/vii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971); (William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1948; gift to NGA, 1948.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1950
Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Accessions of Prints and Drawings, NGA, 1950, no. 30, repro.
1952
100 Masterpieces of the Print, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1952, no cat.
1954
Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.
1956
Masterpieces of Graphic Art. From the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956, no cat.
1959
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.
1962
Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 8.
1971
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 16, repro.
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 52.
2007
The Baroque Woodcut, NGA, 2007 - 2008, no cat.
2009
The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain, NGA, 2009, no. 7, repro.
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. 82, repro. fig. 21.
2019
The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019-2020, no. 107.
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger.
Inscriptions
In block, in image, at top center: · IMP·CAES·MAXIMIL·AVG; in block, in image, on banner at lower right center: 15 8; in block, in image, at lower left: Jost de Negker. ; in block, in image, at lower right: ·H·BVRGKMAIR
Markings
recto, lower right corner below artist's name, in black ink: Friedrich August II (Lugt 971)
Wikidata ID
Q65072918