Hieronymus and Daniel HOPFER – Charles Quint, emperor, 1520-1521


Hieronymus and Daniel HOPFER
ca 1500 + 1563 and 1470 + 1536
Charles Quint, emperor, 1520-1521


Etching on iron
224 x 154
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Hollstein nr 63 (II/II). Good impression trimmed at the platemark or very slightly into this one, of 2nd state (of 2), with the number. Slight oxidation of the sheet and some rare small thin paper areas; some small foxings. The first state impressions are very état rare. Edition of XVIIth or of beginning of XVIIIth century. Watermark : letters “I.C.V.” (?). “Le style des Hopfer n’est peut-être pas mieux représenté que dans le portrait de l’empereur Charles Quint” G. Jeemen in “Imperial Augsbourg”, exhib. National Gallery, Washington, 2012.