Faith, from the Cardinal Virtues
Medium
Engraving, second state of two.
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. (10.8 × 8.2 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.447(1)
Tags
About the Artist
Nicolaes de Bruyn|Assuerus van Londerseel · 1571–1656
Nicolaes de Bruyn was a Flemish printmaker born in Antwerp in 1571, active during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries and known primarily for his large, elaborately detailed engravings of landscapes, hunting scenes, and biblical and mythological subjects. He trained in the tradition of Flemish reproductive engraving and was deeply influenced by the work of his contemporaries and pre...