Gardener with a Basket on her Arm, from Hortulanae series
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 11/16 x 8 5/16 in. (34.8 x 21.1 cm) Image: 11 5/16 × 6 1/2 in. (28.8 × 16.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941
Accession Number
41.9.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Gardener with a Basket her Arm**, from the *Hortanae* series, is a delicate etching and engraving created between 1612 and 1616, attributed to Jacques Bellange Jean I Leblond. This print captures a poised female gardener carrying a basket on her arm, exemplifying the series' focus on women in horticultural roles—a nod to the era's appreciation for nature's nurturers amid Europe's early 17th-century artistic shift toward intricate detail and humanism. The medium of etching and engraving allowed for exquisite line work and tonal depth, making prints like this accessible reproductions of fine ...
About the Artist
Jacques Bellange|Jean I Leblond · 1570–1616
Jacques Bellange (c. 1575–1616) was a French artist and printmaker active in the independent Duchy of Lorraine, now part of France. Believed to have been born in the Bassigny region south of Nancy, his early life and training remain sparsely documented, with no records of specific teachers or mentors. He first appears in historical records in 1595 at La Mothe, where he took on an apprentice, sugge...