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Oude prenten – Gravures anciennes
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Christ at the Cross stabbed by Longinus’ spear. The folio was an illustration in I.
Knoblouch, Der Text des Passions oder Lijdens Christi, Strassburg 1506, publ. by
N. Ringmann. Latin and German text on verso.
Ref. German Hollstein IX:25.
314 [German]
HOPFER, Daniel - 2 religious etchings. Augsburg, 1505-1536.
Various sizes and conditions. Under passe-partout.
350 / 400 €
1. The Virgin and Child with St Anne. The Holy family seated in a room looking
out on a Renaissance courtyard. The background was based upon a print of
Benedetto Mantegna. Etching, 22,7 x 15,4 cm, laid paper with watermark,
signed in the plate with monogram (trimmed to the borderline, some wear on the
plate at upper corners, small stain at upper right). Very good, early impression
of the 1st state (of 3). Ref. Hollstein 45.1.- Metzger 46. - 2. Christ Before the
Adulterous Woman. Etching, 30,2 x 21,5 cm, laid paper with unidentified
watermark, unsigned (trimmed just outside platemark, lower text margin with
signature trimmed). Good and dark impression of 2nd state (of 3) publ. by Funck.
Ref. Hollstein 12.2. - Metzger 15.2.
fantasy creatures. This print belongs to a set of two portrait medallions, of
which the other depicts Nero.
Ref. Metzger 92. - German Hollstein 91
317 [German]
HOPFER, Hieronymus. After Daniel HOPFER - Emperor
Maximilian I as St George. Augsburg, c. 1519.
Etching, 22,7 x 15,8 cm, laid paper, signed «H.H.» in the plate at left edge
(trimmed to the platemark, some plate tone in halo and around the edges, glued
on passe-partout). Under passe-partout.
150 / 200 €
315 [German]
HOPFER, Daniel - Jacob and Esau. Augsburg, 1514.
Woodcut, 25,5 x 17,2 cm, laid paper, signed with emblem in plate at upper right
side, generous margins (sl. toned at lower right edge). Stuck by upper corners
under passe-partout.
200 / 300 €
Title-page illustration to Johann Ech’s «Chrysopasus», publ. in Augsburg by
Johann Miller in 1514, showing the two old testament figures in a ornamental
antique-style archway, which bears the publication’s title on top.
Ref. Metzger 155. - German Hollstein 149.
316 [German]
HOPFER, Daniel - Portrait medallion Galba. Augsburg, c. 1520.
Etching, 22,5 x 15,4 cm, laid paper, monogrammed DH (sl. toned, sl. worn,
trimmed to edges with sl. loss of image at left edge). Stuck under glass and metal
frame (not studied outside frame).
200 / 300 €
Profile bust of the Roman Emperor Galba in a medaillion with Latin text: «Ser.
Galba. Imp. Caesaug.» Framed in all corners by grotesques and mythological
Rare copy by Hieronymus Hopfer, after the portrait by his father of Emperor
Maximilian. The etched portrait underscored Maximilian’s devotion to George
as the patron of the order founded by his father and as model chivalrous
knight, whose conquest over the dragon made him the vanguard of the army
of Christians.
Ref. German Hollstein 88.3. - L. Silver, «Marketing Maximilian: The Visual
Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor», Princeton & Oxford 2008, pp. 118-19.
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