A Massacre by the Triumvirate
ca. 1624
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Walter E. Sachs and Mrs. Henry Bernheim Gift, by exchange; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange; Charles Z. Offin Fund; Gift of Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, by exchange; purchase, by exchange; and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1999
Accession Number
1999.404
Tags
About the Artist
Claude Vignon · 1593–1670
Claude Vignon was born on May 19, 1593, in Tours, France, into a wealthy family, and he died on May 10, 1670, in Paris. He received his initial artistic training in Paris under the Mannerist painter Jacob Bunel, a key figure in the Second School of Fontainebleau. Vignon traveled extensively in his youth, likely visiting Rome as early as 1609–1610 and settling there by 1616–1619 among the French ar...