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Hans Burgkmair I

Emperor Maximilian I, 1508/1518

Not on View

Medium

chiaroscuro woodcut in green printed from two blocks

Dimensions

image (trimmed to image): 32.5 × 22.7 cm (12 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 323, State iv/vii

Accession Number

1948.11.14

Artists / Makers

Hans Burgkmair I (artist) German, 1473 - 1531

Jost de Negker (artist) Flemish, 1485 - 1544

Image Use

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Inscription

In block, in image, at top center: · IMP·CAES·MAXIMIL·AVG; in block, in image, on banner at lower right center: 15 8; in block, in image, at lower left: Jost de Negker. ; in block, in image, at lower right: ·H·BVRGKMAIR

Marks and Labels

recto, lower right corner below artist's name, in black ink: Friedrich August II (Lugt 971)

Provenance

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971); (William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1948; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1950: Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Accessions of Prints and Drawings, NGA, 1950, no. 30, repro.

1952: 100 Masterpieces of the Print, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1952, no cat.

1954: Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.

1956: Masterpieces of Graphic Art. From the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956, no cat.

1959: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.

1962: Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 8.

1971: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 16, repro.

1971: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.

1973: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 52.

2007: The Baroque Woodcut, NGA, 2007 - 2008, no cat.

2009: The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain, NGA, 2009, no. 7, repro.

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. 82, repro. fig. 21.

2019: The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019-2020, no. 107.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger.