Christian II, King of Denmark (Christiernus 2 Danorum Rex)

Jacob Binck, German, 1500 - 1569
after Jan Gossaert, Dutch, 1472 - 1533

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Engraving on paper

Sheet: 10 7/16 × 8 1/2 in. (26.5 × 21.6 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade

PR.950.21.1

Geography

Place Made: Germany, Europe

Period

1400-1600

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, lower center: CHRISTIERNVS Z DANORVM / REX SVETIE NOR / VEGIE ZC; inscribed, in brown ink, lower center: N.2Jul:1481 coronato.1513 capulsus 1522. captus 1532. moritur in carcere 25 Januar: 1559. Watermark, lower center: [coat of arms: shield with three fleur-de-lys crowned by three trefoils] [cut off]

Course History

GERM 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2022

German 10.06, A Visual History of Germany, Heidi Denzel, Winter 2024

Exhibition History

Durer and Friends, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.

Molinari Medals & Plaquettes, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 11-December 12, 1976.

Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.

Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.

The Renaissance: Forms, Reforms, and Revolutions, Barrows-Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 9-September 3, 1982.

Publication History

Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, p. 14, no. 2.

Robert L. McGrath (ed.), Prints and Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Dartmouth College, 1976, no. 7 [by Roger Wolf].

Provenance

Alfred Byers Wade (1874-1949) Collection, to his wife, Helena Mein Wade (1878-1966), New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949; given to present collection, 1950.

Catalogue Raisonne

Hollstein 245

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