Copy of The Good Samaritan Paying the Innkeeper for the Care of the Wounded Man
Heinrich Aldegrever
after 1554
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/8 × 3 7/8 in. (8 × 9.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Ruth Peterson on behalf of the Estate of Jacob Frey, 1972
Accession Number
1972.524.5
Tags
BuildingsMenDonkeys
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...