Design for an Ornamental Panel with the Figure of Astronomy
1590–1637
Medium
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash and ochre washes.
Dimensions
8 3/8 x 6 9/16 in. (21.2 x 16.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, by exchange, Mr. and Mrs. E. Powis Jones Gift, and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1996
Accession Number
1996.37
Tags
About the Artist
Lucas Kilian|Johann Matthias Kager
Lucas Kilian (1579–1637) was one of the most celebrated engravers of early 17th-century Germany and the most prominent member of the Kilian dynasty of printmakers in Augsburg. Born in Augsburg in 1579, Lucas Kilian achieved international recognition for his technically virtuosic engravings and became a leading figure in the transition from late Renaissance to early Baroque printmaking styles. His ...