Vertical Panel with a Candelabrum Containing a Child's Head and a Woman with Two Fish Tails
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/4 × 1 5/16 in. (8.3 × 3.3 cm) Plate: 3 1/16 × 1 1/8 in. (7.8 × 2.9 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
21.11.1
Tags
HeadsChildrenFemale Nudes
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...