The Rich Man Being Carried Away by the Devil

after 1554

after Heinrich Aldegrever

Associated Names
Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist After, German, 1502 - 1555/1561

This is a painting of fantastical creatures in a rocky landscape. Various mythical and grotesque creatures are depicted engaged in different activities. Two horned, humanoid figures with fur on their legs stand near a cliff on the right side. Below them, a beastly creature with a humanoid form but an animalistic head crouches and wields an axe-like tool. A winged being is shown flying above, carrying another figure. The background shows a distant landscape with a castle-like structure on a hill and a tree in the foreground rocks. The scene has a dark and otherworldly atmosphere reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch's style.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.233

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 47 (copy after), State only


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1985

  • Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Heinrich Aldegreaver, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 47 (copy after), state only.

Wikidata ID

Q64952882

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