Oct 27, 2010 - Sale 2227

Sale 2227 - Lot 343

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
HIERONYMUS HOPFER
Portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent.

Etching, circa 1530. 227x155 mm; 9x6 1/8 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2). A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching.

Hopfer's etching of the Ottoman sultan, based on a profile drawing by Albrecht Dürer, probably dates from soon after Suleiman's 1529 Siege of Vienna. Bartsch 57.