Ornamental Fillet with Thistle Motifs

Daniel Hopfer

1510–28

Ornamental Fillet with Thistle Motifs by Daniel Hopfer

Medium

Etching; first state of two

Dimensions

sheet: 9 1/16 x 6 1/8 in. (23 x 15.6 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924

Accession Number

24.68.2

About the Artist

Daniel Hopfer · 14711536

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...

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