Battle of Naked Men and Peasants

1522

Hans Lützelburger

Artist, German, active 1517-1526

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 15 × 29.6 cm (5 7/8 × 11 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 18.5 × 30 cm (7 5/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.21.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 3, State i/ii (under Hogenberg)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Antiquariat Franke, Lübeck, as part of an album of 16th and 17th century prints). (sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 26 May 2016, no.5138, as by Nikolaus Hogenberg); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2021-2022 (shown only in New York).

2022

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

Bibliography

1860

  • Passavant, Johann David. Le peintre-graveur, contenant l'histoire de la gravure sur bois, sur metalet au buring jusque vers la fin du XVI siecle .... 6 vols. Leipzig: Rudolph Weigel, 1860-1864: no. 2 (under Hogenberg)

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. vol. XIIIA (Hogenberg), Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 3, i/ii.

Inscriptions

lower left in image, on tablet: H.N. (in reverse); lower left in tablet: HANNS / LEVCZELLBVRGER / FVRMSCHNIDER / 1522; lower right in tablet: ABCDEFG / HIKLMNO / PQRSTVX / YZ

Watermarks

high crown

Wikidata ID

Q77258813

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