Brabant Noblewoman (Nobilis Mulier Brabantica)
Medium
Etching and engraving; second state of two
Dimensions
Plate: 3 9/16 × 2 3/16 in. (9 × 5.5 cm) Sheet: 8 × 6 in. (20.3 × 15.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Barbara E. Fox, from the Collection of Howard A. Fox, MD, and Barbara E. Fox, 2021
Accession Number
2021.104.1
About the Artist
Johannes Meyssens|Wenceslaus Hollar · 1612–1670
Joannes Meyssens (1612–1670), also known as Johannes, Jan, or Jean Meyssens, was a Flemish Baroque painter, engraver, and print publisher whose career exemplifies the multifaceted nature of seventeenth-century artistic enterprise. Born in Brussels on May 17, 1612, and active primarily in Antwerp where he died on September 18, 1670, Meyssens made his most significant contribution not through his pa...