Perspectival Drawing of a Cradle
Peter Flötner
1500–1546
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray, and a reddish brown chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 2 15/16 x 2 5/8 in. (7.4 x 6.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2007
Accession Number
2007.223.1
Tags
Cradles
About the Artist
Peter Flötner · 1485–1546
Peter Flötner (c. 1485–1546) was a German sculptor, ornament designer, and medalist whose work played a central role in the transmission of Italian Renaissance decorative vocabulary into the German-speaking lands. Though his exact origins remain uncertain — he may have trained in Augsburg before settling permanently in Nuremberg around 1522 — his formation evidently included exposure to Italian Re...