The Crucified Christ in a Decorated Niche, 1520s

Not on View

Medium

etching (iron) on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.4 x 14.9 cm (8 13/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

sheet: 22.7 x 15.2 cm (8 15/16 x 6 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 18, State i/ii

Accession Number

2000.154.1

Artists / Makers

Daniel Hopfer (artist) German, c. 1470 - 1536

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: DH; by later hand, in banner at upper right in brown ink: 1530; by later hand, lower right in graphite: BM 13; by later hand, center verso in graphite: B 13 I vol.... No / (not deciphered) / 15m. / ex Bibliotheque / (not deciphered); by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: N. 50 / 350

Marks and Labels

illegible blindstamp

Provenance

P. Gervaise, Paris (d. 1860) (Lugt 1078). Graphische Sammlung, Munich (2723 and duplicate stamp, Lugt 2397). (C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Gervaise, P.
Graphische Sammlung, Munich

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. 25.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: A.L. van Gendt, 1986; Vol. XV, 18, 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. 22, i/iv.