Master of Ceremonies with a Dog, plate one from the Large Wedding-Dancers

Prints and Drawings

1538

Heinrich Aldegrever
German, 1502-c.1560

The figures in Aldegrever’s lively series of couples and musicians at a wedding show off daggers and swords as gentlemen’s fashion accessories rather than as weapons. As the couples pivot, pace, and embrace, blades peek out at different angles, whether impeding intimacy or visually alluding to increasing amorousness. Moving from left to right in triumphal procession, dancers sway to the tune of trombonists in their wake.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Heinrich Aldegrever
Title: Master of Ceremonies with a Dog, plate one from the Large Wedding-Dancers
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1538
Medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 11.6 × 7.7 cm (4 5/8 × 3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
Reference Number: 1919.2229
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Bartsch 160

New Hollstein 160

Hollstein 160

Bartsch, illustrated 160

Schmidt 162

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