Art, literature & history
Triumphal Altar with Stages in the Life of Christ
1518
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching (iron) with open biting, plate bitten twice, on 2 joined sheets of laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet (joined): 62.5 x 21.6 cm (24 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.) sheet (top): 32 x 17.3 cm (12 5/8 x 6 13/16 in.) sheet (bottom): 30.7 x 21.6 cm (12 1/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1998.51.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Daniel Hopfer. Triumphal Altar with Stages in the Life of Christ. Daniel Hopfer; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daniel_Hopfer,_Triumphal_Altar_with_Stages_in_the_Life_of_Christ,_1518,_NGA_106350.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Triumphal Altar with Stages in the Life of Christ — Daniel Hopfer. 1518.
Medium: etching (iron) with open biting, plate bitten twice, on 2 joined sheets of laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet (joined): 62.5 x 21.6 cm (24 5/8 x 8 1/2 in.) sheet (top): 32 x 17.3 cm (12 5/8 x 6 13/16 in.) sheet (bottom): 30.7 x 21.6 cm (12 1/16 x 8 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1998.51.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.