Battle of Naked Men and Peasants
1522
Artist, German, active 1517-1526
Hans Lützelburger, after Master NH
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 15 × 29.6 cm (5 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
sheet: 18.5 × 30 cm (7 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.21.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 3, State i/ii (under Hogenberg)
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Antiquariat Franke, Lübeck, as part of an album of 16th and 17th century prints). (sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 26 May 2016, no.5138, as by Nikolaus Hogenberg); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2021-2022 (shown only in New York), no repro.
2022
The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.
Bibliography
1860
Passavant, Johann David. Le peintre-graveur, contenant l'histoire de la gravure sur bois, sur metalet au buring jusque vers la fin du XVI siecle .... 6 vols. Leipzig: Rudolph Weigel, 1860-1864: no. 2 (under Hogenberg)
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. vol. XIIIA (Hogenberg), Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 3, i/ii.
2021
Woollett, Anne T., editor.Holbein: Capturing Character. Exh. cat. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2021-2022.
Inscriptions
lower left in image, on tablet: H.N. (in reverse); lower left in tablet: HANNS / LEVCZELLBVRGER / FVRMSCHNIDER / 1522; lower right in tablet: ABCDEFG / HIKLMNO / PQRSTVX / YZ
Watermarks
high crown
Wikidata ID
Q77258813