Standing Soldier
Jost Amman
1550–91
Medium
Pen and black ink
Dimensions
11 5/16 x 7 3/16 in. (28.7 x 18.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, by exchange, 1995
Accession Number
1995.300
Tags
Soldiers
About the Artist
Jost Amman · 1539–1591
Jost Amman (1539–1591) was a Swiss-born woodcut designer, engraver, and illustrator who became one of the most prolific and influential graphic artists of sixteenth-century Germany, producing an output of extraordinary range and technical virtuosity that shaped the visual culture of the later Reformation era. Born in Zurich, Amman moved to Nuremberg around 1560, the city that had been the center o...