Decorated Roman alphabet
ca. 1499
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 1 7/16 × 1 7/16 in. (3.6 × 3.6 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959
Accession Number
59.507.36(11)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, French, 15th century · 1400–1500
The artist known only as Anonymous, French, 15th century, represents one of the many unidentified creators whose works survive from a transformative era in French art. Active between roughly 1400 and 1500, this figure contributed to the rich tradition of late medieval and early Renaissance painting in France, a period marked by the transition from Gothic conventions toward greater naturalism and h...