The Wedding Festivities (Les Danseurs des Noces) Heinrich Aldegrever 1538

The Wedding Festivities (Les Danseurs des Noces)
Heinrich Aldegrever 1538
From the collection of
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Details
Title: The Wedding Festivities (Les Danseurs des Noces)
Creator: Heinrich Aldegrever
Date Created: 1538
Set or Series Title: Les Danseurs des Noces
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/Obj177
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1943
Materials & Techniques: Engraving
Keywords: evening dresses, genre, weddings
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Number eight from the set of twelve, “Les Danseurs des Noces.”
Bibliography: Bartsch 167 (vol. 8, p. 410); the set of twelve is Bartsch 160–171
Associated People: Created by Heinrich Aldegrever (German, 1502 - ca. 1561)
Accession Number: 1943.D1.1

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

The Davison Art Center (DAC) holds Wesleyan University's collection of more than 25,000 works of art, chiefly European and American prints and photographs. The DAC collection, which is among the finest print collections at any U.S. university, is used extensively for teaching and learning from objects, scholarly research and publication, and gallery exhibitions open to the public.

Heinrich Aldegrever
1502 - 1568

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 Dürer.
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