Orpheus and Eurydice

An etching shows a nude man wearing a leafy wreath, standing and playing a stringed instrument beside a seated nude woman who rests her head on one hand. Dense cross-hatched lines model the bodies and the rocky, tree-trunk setting, and a monogram with a date sits in the upper right corner.

Look closer: A monogram with a date is set in a box in the upper right corner.

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Date

1528

Medium

Etching from iron plate

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1039 × 1630 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932