Virgin and Child with Angels Dancing in a Landscape
Medium
Etching; second state of two
Dimensions
sheet: 4 7/8 x 13 7/16 in. (12.4 x 34.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of W. G. Russell Allen, 1924
Accession Number
24.6.2
Tags
About the Artist
Daniel Hopfer|Marcantonio Raimondi|Lucas Cranach the Elder|Albrecht Dürer · 1471–1536
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...