Head of a Bearded Man
ca. 1518–19
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 5/8 × 3 1/4 in. (11.8 × 8.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.600.3
Tags
About this artwork
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)'s "Head of a Bearded Man" (ca. 1518–19) The work, executed in woodcut, measures sheet: 4 5/8 × 3 1/4 in. and Prints served crucial roles in disseminating artistic ideas and images across geographic and social boundaries. This work provides valuable insights into Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)'s artistic practice and the broader cultural and material contexts of its creation.
About the Artist
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) · 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...