An Allegory of a Rich Man and a Poor Man (Der Lustige Arme und der Traurige Reiche)

1596

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: sheet: 10 3/16 x 8 3/8 in. (25.8 x 21.2 cm) plate: 9 15/16 x 8 in. (25.2 x 20.3 cm) image: 9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in. (24.5 x 19.6 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.136.724
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Christoph Murer. An Allegory of a Rich Man and a Poor Man (Der Lustige Arme und der Traurige Reiche). Christoph Murer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

An Allegory of a Rich Man and a Poor Man (Der Lustige Arme und der Traurige Reiche) — Christoph Murer. 1596.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: sheet: 10 3/16 x 8 3/8 in. (25.8 x 21.2 cm) plate: 9 15/16 x 8 in. (25.2 x 20.3 cm) image: 9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in. (24.5 x 19.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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