Designs for Ten Decorative Friezes
Daniel Hopfer
ca. 1515
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/16 × 6 1/8 in. (23.4 × 15.6 cm) Plate: 5 1/4 × 3 7/16 in. (13.4 × 8.7 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.734
Tags
Ornament
About the Artist
Daniel Hopfer · 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...