A Man Overpowered By Thieves
Heinrich Aldegrever
c. 1554
Medium
black ink and gray wash on buff laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 8.1 x 11.1 cm (3 3/16 x 4 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of J. Carter Brown
Accession Number
2000.96.1
About the Artist
Heinrich Aldegrever · 1502–1561
Heinrich Aldegrever, born in 1502 in Paderborn, Westphalia, to parents Herman and Katherine Trippenmeker—a family of clog-makers known by the dialect name Trippenmecker—emerged as a multifaceted artist in the German Renaissance. His early training remains undocumented, though he likely apprenticed in a Soest goldsmith's workshop after relocating there around 1525, where he joined the painters' gui...