February, from "Twelve Months"
Medium
Etching; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (24.7 × 30.1 cm) Plate: 6 1/4 × 8 9/16 in. (15.8 × 21.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.52.51
Tags
About the Artist
Jan van de Velde II|Johannes Janssonius · 1593–1641
Jan van de Velde II (1593–1641) was one of the most accomplished Dutch printmakers and draughtsmen of the early seventeenth century, born in Haarlem into a dynasty of celebrated calligraphers and artists. His father, Jan van de Velde I, was a renowned writing master, and his cousin Willem van de Velde the Elder would later become a distinguished marine painter. Jan II studied engraving under Jacob...