Self-Portrait at Age Twenty-Eight
Medium
Engraving; second state of two (New Hollstein)
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 15/16 × 4 1/4 in. (15.1 × 10.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930
Accession Number
30.53.8
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About this artwork
This engraving presents a self-portrait of the artist at age twenty-eight, created in 1530 and bearing a Latin inscription that translates to "This is the present image of the painter Heinrich Aldegrever, which his own hands created, in the year of his age 28." The work measures approximately five and eleven-sixteenths by four and one-sixteenth inches and represents the second state of two. Aldegrever includes his distinctive monogram "AG" on the print, following the practice established by Albr...
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...