Inscription [reverse]
![Inscription [reverse] by Friedrich Hagenauer](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/inscription-reverse-nga-81906.webp)
Medium
bronze
Dimensions
overall (diameter): 4 cm (1 9/16 in.) gross weight: 20.2 gr (0.045 lb.) axis: 11:00
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Stephen K. Scher and Janie Woo Scher, in gratitude to the staff of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1993.44.1.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...