Soldier Embracing a Woman
c. 1530; printed 1684
Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536
Publisher, German, 1642 - 1709

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (iron)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 22.4 x 15.4 cm (8 13/16 x 6 1/16 in.)
sheet: 23.5 x 16.7 cm (9 1/4 x 6 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1979.44.8
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 78, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 121, repro.
1996
Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996.
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. 38.
Bibliography
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, 78, ii/ii.
1990
Russell 1990, cat.no.121.
2009
Metzger, Christof. Daniel Hopfer: ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance : Eisenradierungen, Holzschnitte, Zeichnungen, Waffenätzungen. München: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, no. 83, iii/iii.
Wikidata ID
Q65567441