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Head of a Peasant
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Head of a Peasant

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

6.0 x 4.5 cm

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Thomas Wijck

1616–1677Dutch Republic

Thomas Wyck is best known for painting scenes of popular life set in the squares and courtyards of Rome; he continued to paint such scenes even after he returned to the northern Netherlands. Comment on works: Marines; Genre; Interiors