Design for a Garland from 'Various New Festoons, Part II' (Verscheide Nieuwe Festonnen, tweede deel)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/16 × 7 1/2 in. (12.9 × 19.1 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2013
Accession Number
2013.938c
Tags
GarlandsFruit
About the Artist
Jacob van Campen|Michiel Mosyn|Frederick de Wit
On the death of his parents, Jacob received a considerable inheritance and the title of Lord of Randenbroek. He did not have the benefit of a formal architectural training, but produced several important works, including the Mauritshuis in The Hague and the Amsterdam Town Hall, in which he introduced an Italian classical formal idiom to the Northern Netherlands. Dutch architect and painter. Commen...