Design for Armor Decoration
Daniel Hopfer|Hopfer Workshop
ca. 1515
Medium
Etching; second state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 5/16 × 3 7/16 in. (13.5 × 8.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962
Accession Number
62.635.513
Tags
OrnamentFlowersLeaves
About the Artist
Daniel Hopfer|Hopfer Workshop · 1471–1536
Daniel Hopfer (c. 1470–1536), born in Kaufbeuren, was the son of the painter Bartholomäus Hopfer and Anna Sendlerin. He relocated early to Augsburg, becoming a citizen and master painter there in 1493, and trained as an etcher of armor in this thriving center of arms production. By 1505, he owned a house in the city center and served on the guild committee for smiths, which encompassed painters an...