Inscription [reverse]
Friedrich Hagenauer
1401 to 1500
![Inscription [reverse] by Friedrich Hagenauer](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/inscription-reverse-nga-45559.webp)
Medium
lead
Dimensions
overall (diameter): 6.38 cm (2 1/2 in.) gross weight: 73.11 gr (0.161 lb.) axis: 6:00
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1957.14.1298.b
About the Artist
Friedrich Hagenauer · 1490–1546
Friedrich Hagenauer (c. 1490–c. 1546) was a German sculptor and medallist of the Northern Renaissance whose finely wrought portrait medals and carved reliefs placed him among the most accomplished practitioners of his craft in early sixteenth-century Germany. The details of his early life and training remain incompletely documented, but he is believed to have been born in Strasbourg and to have re...