Large Wedding Dancers

1538

Heinrich Aldegrever

Associated Names
Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist, German, 1502 - 1555/1561

The image shows three men playing wind instruments. The man on the left is playing a bagpipes-like instrument, the middle man is playing a larger wind instrument, and the man on the right is playing a similar large instrument. They are dressed in elaborate garments with buttons and sashes, and the man on the right wears a cape with a circular emblem on the shoulder. Their features are roughly drawn with expressive facial lines and furrowed brows. The background is plain with the numbers "76" and "12" visible.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.283

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. 171, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 18); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

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. 171, state only.

Wikidata ID

Q64957464

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