Nude Children Dancing Under a Canopy, with Two Horses on the Left and a Banner on the Right
Heinrich Aldegrever
ca. 1532–33
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 1 11/16 × 4 1/8 in. (4.3 × 10.4 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Accession Number
1986.1180.11
Tags
OrnamentChildrenHorses
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...