Emperor Maximilian I in the Guise of Saint George

c. 1509/1510

Daniel Hopfer

Associated Names
Daniel Hopfer

Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536

The image displays a man in profile from the waist up. He is standing sideways with his hands together, one hand resting on the other, and looking forward. His facial features are strong, with a prominent nose and chin, and he has shoulder-length hair beneath a broad hat. The man wears a robe with a rich fur-like texture and a collar adorned with small carved figures. Surrounding him are angelic figures, one holding a banner and another supporting a shield. The background features stylized clouds and mountains. An ornate staff is inset at the bottom near the man. There is a faint circular halo or disc outlined behind his head.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) with open biting, plate bitten twice

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 22.7 x 15.7 cm (8 15/16 x 6 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1968.18.14

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 88, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William H. Schab, New York); purhased by NGA, 1968.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • Sixteenth-Century Prints of the Danube School, NGA, 1968, no cat.

1969

  • A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1969, no cat.

2000

  • The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2000-2001, repro. in brochure, fig. 3.

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. 86, repro. fig. 26.

2019

  • The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019-2020, no. 105.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, 88, 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. 55, i/iv.

Inscriptions

in plate, in image at left: [Hopfer family pine cone symbol] / D·H

Wikidata ID

Q65508204

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