Design for a Doorway
Medium
Pen and black ink with white heightening
Dimensions
7-3/4 x 6 in. (19.8 x 15.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 1998
Accession Number
1998.41.11
Tags
About the Artist
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)|Monogrammist HT|Anonymous, German, 16th century · 1484–1545
Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85–1545), born in Schwäbisch Gmünd into an erudite family of jurists and physicians, forsook academia to pursue art. His early training around 1500 took place in the Upper Rhineland, likely Strasbourg, before he apprenticed under Albrecht Dürer in Nuremberg from 1503 to 1507. There, the young artist honed his skills in painting, printmaking, and stained glass, even managin...