Last Hurrah
- Hopfer, The Soldier and His Wife
- van Leyden, The Baptism of Christ
- Italian School (Tuscan?), Eagles
- Marco Dente, Entellus and Dares
- Vincentino, Temperance
- Hopfer, Battle of the Naked Men
- Circle of Romano, Roman Battle
- van Leyden, The Fall of Man
- Scultori, Eros Playing a Clavier
- Bonasone, The Wounded Scipio
- Brun, The Drummer
- Cort, The Assembly of the Gods
- Wierix, The Virgin Nursing
- Sadeler, Annunciation
- de Gheyn, The Rest on the Flight
- Sadeler, Death as a Welcome Visitor
- Callot, Les Intermèdes, No.1
- Brebiette, Woman Nursing
- Dutch or Flemish School, Four Biblical Episodes
- Vauquer, Ornament Plate
- Hondius, Uylenspiegel, or Owlglass
- Roghman, River and Rocks, Italy
- Castiglione, Noah and the Animals
- Piranesi, Frontispiece
- Piranesi, Carceri XI: The Arch
- Pether, A Farrier’s Shop
- Tiepolo, Self Portrait
- Turner & Dunkarton, The Temple
- Lucas, The Vale of Dedham, Essex
- Weir, Study for a Monument
- Lalanne, View of Groningen
- Richmond, Landscape at Otford
- Harpignies, Troncs d’Arbres
- Loizelet, Le Petit Coblentz
- Whistler, The Smith
- Forain, Loge de Danseuse
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Au Pied du Sinai
- Orlik, Still Life with Fruit
- Marin, Sestiere di Dorso Duro
- Roussel, The Snow
- Vergé-Sarrat, Chambre de Malade
- Oppenheimer, Ferruccio Busoni
- Levine, Sewing Machine Operator
- Picasso, Femme Nue à la Jambe
- Oppenheimer, The Rosé Quartet
- Villon, Mon Vieux Luxembourg
- Epstein, Jackie
- Tobey, Untitled
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6. Hieronymus (Jerome) Hopfer (fl. 1528-1563) after Domenico Campagnola (ca. 1500-1564) Battle of the Naked Men |
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Battle of the Naked Men
Iron etching, Bartsch 44 ii/ii, Hollstein 49, 246 x 219 mm., ex collection Franz Degenhard (Lugt 658a). An unusually fine impression of the second state, with the Funk number 53 at the base, on good laid paper with small margins all around. Hieronymus’ effort here is not the usual slavish copy of an earlier work. Firstly, it is in the same direction as Campagnola’s engraving, so he did not take an impression of that print and trace through it onto a plate (it would be in reverse if that were the case). More importantly, he makes the print into an effective vertical composition by extending the top and filling it with stylized foliage, as well as changing many smaller details. And, of course, it is etched on iron rather than engraved on copper. It may not be a Hopfer invention, but what emerges is a Hopfer-like print, impressive on its own. The Hopfers worked in Augsburg. Hieronymus was one of the two artist sons of Daniel and by far the more talented one.
