Shield with House-mark [reverse]
![Shield with House-mark [reverse] by Friedrich Hagenauer](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/shield-with-house-mark-reverse-nga-45368.webp)
Medium
lead
Dimensions
overall (diameter): 4.61 cm (1 13/16 in.) gross weight: 29.1 gr (0.064 lb.) axis: 12:00
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CSD
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1957.14.1191.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...