Album with Twelve Engravings of The Passion, a Woodcut of Christ as the Man of Sorrows, and a Metalcut of St. Jerome in Penitence
Medium
Engravings, two touched with gold; woodcut, hand-colored; metalcut, hand-colored; manuscript in dark brown ink with red, and blue initials and flourishes; bound in blind-stamped leather.
Dimensions
Overall: 10 1/4 x 8 1/16 x 1/2 in. (26 x 20.4 x 1.3 cm)
Classification
Albums
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and 2002 Benefit Fund; and The Chester Dale Collection, Bequest of Chester Dale, Gifts of Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Henry Walters and Anonymous, and other gifts, bequests, and funds, by exchange, 2003
Accession Number
2003.476
Tags
About the Artist
Israhel van Meckenem|Anonymous, German, Cologne, 15th century|Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century · 1435–1503
Israhel van Meckenem (c. 1445–1503), also known as Israhel van Meckenem the Younger, was a pioneering German engraver and goldsmith based in Bocholt, near the Dutch border, renowned as the most prolific printmaker of the fifteenth century. Born into a family possibly of Dutch origin, he was the son of Israhel van Meckenem the Elder, a goldsmith who settled in Bocholt in 1457. He trained initially ...