Three German Soldiers Armed with Halberds

c. 1510

Daniel Hopfer

Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 8.7 x 13.2 cm (3 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1979.44.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 69, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

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. 66.

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, 69, 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. 73, i/iii.

Inscriptions

bottom center, in plate: D [Hopfer family pine cone symbol] H

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65567443


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