Half-figure of a Woman
Jacob Matham
1605
Medium
Black and red chalk on vellum. Lined.
Dimensions
sheet: 7 1/4 x 5 11/16 in. (18.4 x 14.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Alice F. Steiner, 1979
Accession Number
1979.25
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Jacob Matham · 1571–1631
**Jacob Matham: Master Engraver of Haarlem** Jacob Matham was born on October 15, 1571, in Haarlem, in the Northern Netherlands, into a burgeoning artistic milieu. Following his father's early death, his mother married the renowned painter and engraver Hendrick Goltzius in 1579, who adopted the young Jacob and trained him rigorously in the workshop as his stepson and pupil. Matham's first signed ...