The Virgin Mary Taking Leave of Christ

c. 1520

Daniel Hopfer

Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536

Daniel Hopfer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron), plate bitten twice, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29.2 x 22 cm (11 1/2 x 8 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.103.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 13, State i/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's London, 21 September 2011, no. 15; not sold); (Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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. 26.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, no. 13, i/iii

2009

  • Metzger, Christof. Daniel Hopfer: ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance : Eisenradierungen, Holzschnitte, Zeichnungen, Waffenätzungen. München: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, no. 16, i/iv.

2012

  • Kennicott, Philip. "The Passion of the Renaissance, via Germany." Washington Post 135, no. 300 (September 30, 2012): E5, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left in image: D.H

Watermarks

high crown

Wikidata ID

Q76560425


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