1538
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Large Wedding Dancers is a 1538 ink by Heinrich Aldegrever, a Northern Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white engraving shows two people dressed in fancy, old-fashioned clothes. The man on the right wears a long coat with puffy sleeves, a hat, and a beard. He holds a walking stick and looks like he’s posing. The woman on the left has a wide skirt, a ruffled collar, and a hat with a feather. They stand close, but their faces are turned away. Notice how the artist used tiny lines to create shadows and texture—this is called cross-hatching. The details in their clothes and the ground show how carefully the artist worked. Want to see more like this? Try looking up engraving.
Heinrich Aldegrever or Aldegraf was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making small old master prints in the generation after Albrecht Dürer.
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