Equestrian Portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I

Hans Burgkmair, the Elder (German, 1473–1531)

1508 and 1518

Medium/TechniqueChiaroscuro woodcut

DimensionsSheet: 33.5 × 22.6 cm (13 3/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Credit LineStephen Bullard Memorial Fund

Accession number21.10776

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InscriptionsDated in block, on the scroll on the ground: 1518; upper center: . IMP . CAES . MAXIMIL . AVG; printed below the image, lower center, but from a separate block: Jost de Negler zu Augsburg [within a rectangular box]

ProvenanceSecond quarter of the 18th century, Consul Joseph Smith (b. about 1682 - d. 1770), Venice. Dr. Richard Bright, MD (b. 1789 - d. 1858), London; by inheritance to his son, Reverend James Franck Bright (Master of University College, Oxford; b. 1832 - d. 1920), Oxford; June 26-28. 1918, his sale, Sotheby's, lot 355, London. Purchased by the MFA. (Accession Date: December 1, 1921)