Lust, from Virtues and Vices
Medium
Engraving in black on cream paper laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 10.5 × 6.3 cm (4 3/16 × 2 1/2 in.); Sheet: 14.2 × 12.9 cm (5 5/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4449
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...