Old Master Drawings

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Lot 5
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Attributed to Georg Hopfer Active 1559-after 1595

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Description

  • Georg Hopfer
  • the adoration of the shepherds
  • signed with initials and dated, lower right: GH 1595

  • bears inscription on mount: G. Hopfer fe.
    pen and brown and black ink

Provenance

John Barnard (L.1419)

Catalogue Note

The old attribution on the mount most likely refers to Georg Hopfer, who was apparently a great nephew of the famous Daniel Hopfer.  He was active as an arms and armour etcher in Augsburg 1559-66 and worked for Rudolf II in Prague as late as 1590. There do not, however, seem to be any known examples of drawings by him.