Portrait of Hieronymus Schürstab
Hanns Lautensack
1554
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Etching (state i/ii)
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 11 3/8 in. (19.4 × 28.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Fern and Lewis Lowenfels, 2022
Accession Number
2022.459.5
About the Artist
Hanns Lautensack
Hanns Lautensack, born in 1524 in Bamberg, Germany, was the son of Paul Lautensack, a noted painter and organist. Alongside his brother Heinrich, a goldsmith, the family relocated to Nuremberg in 1527, where Hanns immersed himself in the vibrant artistic milieu of the city. There, he likely apprenticed with a goldsmith, honing skills in fine metalwork that informed his precise etching technique, t...