Horizontal Panel with Two Nude Boys Surrounded by Tendrils
Medium
Engraving; second state of three (Hollstein)
Dimensions
Sheet: 1 5/8 × 3 7/8 in. (4.2 × 9.8 cm) Plate: 1 9/16 × 3 3/4 in. (3.9 × 9.6 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
27.23.78
Tags
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...