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Soldier Embracing a Woman

1505–36

Daniel Hopfer

(German, c. 1470–1536)
Culture
Germany
Medium
etching
Measurements
Image: 22 x 15.6 cm (8 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.); Sheet: 24.1 x 17.5 cm (9 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1971.246
Catalogue raisonné
Hollstein XV.103.78
State
I/II
Public Domain
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In this image, a couple embraces in a garden. The man’s dress indicates that he is a German mercenary, who were chastised for loose morals in many prints of the period. The twiglike laurel wreath on his head is a mocking emblem of victory in love and war. His partner meets his gaze and guides his hands, wearing long hair, an open bodice, and a hitched-up skirt suggesting sexual availability. Resonating with Edenic and love garden images, the subject likely operated on the edge of decency for its audience.
A vertically oriented etching on white paper depicts a man and woman with light skin tones beneath a fruit-laden tree. The man, on our left, wears armor and a twig wreath, embracing the woman from behind. She wears a patterned dress and small hat, looking toward our right. In the background, another couple sits in a fenced garden near a mountain. The letters "O·H" are etched on a ledge in the foreground.

Soldier Embracing a Woman

1505–36

Daniel Hopfer

(German, c. 1470–1536)
Germany

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