Soldier Embracing a Woman

c. 1530; printed 1684

Daniel Hopfer

Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536

David Funck

Publisher, German, 1642 - 1709

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron)

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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

  • 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


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