Two Children Playing with a Ball

Peter Flötner

1500–1546

Two Children Playing with a Ball by Peter Flötner

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white bodycolor

Dimensions

sheet: 3 7/8 x 5 1/16 in. (9.8 x 12.9 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2007

Accession Number

2007.223.4

Tags

ChildrenPlaying

About the Artist

Peter Flötner · 14851546

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...

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