Emperor Charles V
1520 (1521?)
Artist, German, c. 1470 - 1536
Artist, German, active c. 1520 - 1550 or after
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (iron) with open biting and unique contemporary hand-coloring in green, red, yellow, pink and brown
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 22 x 15.3 cm (8 11/16 x 6 in.)
sheet: 22.1 x 15.6 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2011.102.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 63, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Colnaghi, London). (Frederick Keppel & Co., New York). Mrs. George A Martin, until 1949. Baldwin Wallace College, 1949-2010; (Hill-Stone Inc., New York); purchased by NGA, 2011.
Associated Names
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. 98, repro. fig. 29.
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 (under Hieronymus Hopfer), no. 63, 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. 95, i/iii.
Inscriptions
below image, in plate: CAROLVS·VON·GOTS·GNAD·REMISCH· / KING·ERWELTER·KAISER·KING·ZVO· / HISSPANIA·VND·BAIDER·SICILEN·ECZ· / ERCZHERZOG·ZVO·OSTERREICH·HERCZ / OG·VON·BVRGVUND·BRABANT·ECZ·GRA / F·ZVO·FLANDER·TIROL·ECZ·I [Hopfer family pine cone symbol]·H·M·D·XX [I?]
Watermarks
none visible
Wikidata ID
Q76560549