Bust of a Man

Jan Lievens

17th century

Bust of a Man by Jan Lievens

Medium

Chiaroscuro woodcut

Dimensions

Sheet: 7 3/8 × 5 3/4 in. (18.7 × 14.6 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925

Accession Number

25.2.61

Tags

MenPortraits

About the Artist

Jan Lievens · 16071674

Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was born in Leiden and showed exceptional artistic promise from an early age, beginning his training with the local painter Joris van Schooten before traveling to Amsterdam around 1617 to study for two years under Pieter Lastman—the same teacher who would later instruct Rembrandt van Rijn. Lievens and Rembrandt, near-contemporaries born in the same city, subsequently shared...

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