Emperor Maximilian I in the Guise of Saint George
c. 1509/1510
Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (iron) with open biting, plate bitten twice
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 22.7 x 15.7 cm (8 15/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1968.18.14
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 88, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(William H. Schab, New York); purhased by NGA, 1968.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1968
Sixteenth-Century Prints of the Danube School, NGA, 1968, no cat.
1969
A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1969, no cat.
2000
The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2000-2001, repro. in brochure, fig. 3.
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. 86, repro. fig. 26.
2019
The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019-2020, no. 105.
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, 88, 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. 55, i/iv.
Inscriptions
in plate, in image at left: [Hopfer family pine cone symbol] / D·H
Wikidata ID
Q65508204