Emperor Charles V

1520 (1521?)

Daniel Hopfer

Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536

Hieronymus Hopfer

Artist, German, active c. 1520 - 1550 or after

Daniel Hopfer and Hieronymus Hopfer

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) with open biting and unique contemporary hand-coloring in green, red, yellow, pink and brown

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann

  • Dimensions

    plate: 22 x 15.3 cm (8 11/16 x 6 in.)
    sheet: 22.1 x 15.6 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2011.102.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 63, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Colnaghi, London). (Frederick Keppel & Co., New York). Mrs. George A Martin, until 1949. Baldwin Wallace College, 1949-2010; (Hill-Stone Inc., New York); purchased by NGA, 2011.

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. 98, repro. fig. 29.

2022

  • The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV (under Hieronymus Hopfer), no. 63, 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. 95, i/iii.

Inscriptions

below image, in plate: CAROLVS·VON·GOTS·GNAD·REMISCH· / KING·ERWELTER·KAISER·KING·ZVO· / HISSPANIA·VND·BAIDER·SICILEN·ECZ· / ERCZHERZOG·ZVO·OSTERREICH·HERCZ / OG·VON·BVRGVUND·BRABANT·ECZ·GRA / F·ZVO·FLANDER·TIROL·ECZ·I [Hopfer family pine cone symbol]·H·M·D·XX [I?]

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q76560549


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