Battle of Naked Men and Peasants

1522

Hans Lützelburger, after Master NH

Associated Names
Hans Lützelburger

Artist, German, active 1517-1526

Master NH

Artist After, German

This is a print of a battle scene in a forest, with men engaged in combat amidst a backdrop of dense trees. The men are a mix of armed and unarmed, some holding long swords, sticks, axes, or pitchforks. Some are lying on the ground. Some of the men are nude apart from small garments around their groins, while other men are wearing full outfits with tunics, jackets, and wide-brimmed hats. The background includes tall trees with heavy branches in front of a sky filled with thin, horizontal lines. In the bottom left and right corners of the paper, below the print, are small rectangles with text in them.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • 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

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 3, State i/ii (under Hogenberg)

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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

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