Martin Luther
1523
Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536
Daniel Hopfer, after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 22.8 × 15.3 cm (9 × 6 in.)
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Accession Number
2021.68.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 96, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
John Postle Heseltine [b. 1843] London (Lugt 1508). (C.G. Boerner, Berlin, 1981, stock no. 10339). Private collection, Germany; (sale, Venator & Hanstein, Cologne, September 21, 2018, lot 16); (C.G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2021 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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, 96, i/ii.
1971
C.G. Boerner, Neue Lagerliste 75 (1981), no. 7
2009
Metzger, Christof. Daniel Hopfer: ein Augsburger Meister der Renaissance : Eisenradierungen, Holzschnitte, Zeichnungen, Waffenätzungen. München: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung; Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009, no. 102, i/iv.
Inscriptions
below image, in plate: Des lutters gestalt mag wol verderbenn / Sein cristlich gemiet wirt nymer sterben [Luther’s figure will decay, his Christian spirit will never die.] / M.D.XXIII. D [Hopfer family pine cone symbol] H; by later hand in graphite on verso, Boerner stock no. 10339
Markings
John Postle Heseltine [b. 1843] London (Lugt 1508)