Allegorical Subject: Nude Woman, Three Children and a Mousetrap (La Sourcière)
Medium
Engraving (burin and drypoint); second state of two (unfinished)
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. (23.5 x 31.5 cm) plate: 8 15/16 x 12 3/16 in. (22.7 x 31 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.50.231
Tags
About the Artist
Claude Mellan · 1598–1688
Claude Mellan (1598-1688) was a French draughtsman, engraver, and painter who became one of the most innovative printmakers of the French Baroque period. Born in Abbeville to a family of coppersmiths, Mellan rose to become Peintre et Graveur Ordinaire du Roi (Painter and Engraver in Ordinary to the King), achieving recognition for his extraordinary technical mastery. Mellan's artistic significanc...