Emperor Maximilian I, 1519

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Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 54.7 × 38.1 cm (21 9/16 × 15 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder 1932, no. 255, 4, State ii c/ii d

Accession Number

2015.191.1

Artists / Makers

Hans Weiditz, II (artist) German, 1500 or before - c. 1536

Albrecht Dürer (artist after) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in center of image: IMPERATOR CAESAR / DIVVS MAXI MILIANVS / PIVS FELIX AVGVSTVS. (Emperor, Caesar, Divine Maximilian Pious Propitious August); across lower center below image: Der Teür Fürst Kayser Maximilianus ist auff den XII tag des Jenners seins alters im / lix Jar seligklich von dyser zeyt geschaiden. Anno domini 1519; lower right in image: AD (in monogram)

Provenance

Private collection, Bavaria. (sale, Karl & Faber, Munich, 8 May 2015, no. 185); (via C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Boerner LLC, C.G.
Karl & Faber Kunstauktionen GmbH
Private Collection

Exhibition History

2022: The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: no. 153

1932: Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971: no. 255, 4, ii c/ii d