The Good Samaritan Tending the Traveller's Wounds with Oil and Wine or The Priest and the Levite Passing, from "The Parable of the Good Samaritan"

The Good Samaritan Tending the Traveller's Wounds with Oil and Wine or The Priest and the Levite Passing, from "The Parable of the Good Samaritan" by Heinrich Aldegrever

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Sheet: 3 1/8 × 4 5/16 in. (7.9 × 10.9 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957

Accession Number

57.658.71(2)

Tags

IllnessSufferingMen

About the Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever · 15021561

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...

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