Holy Family and Two Music-Making Angels
Medium
Engraving; probably second state of three (lacking titlespace below)
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 11 1/4 × 13/16 in. (28.5 × 2.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.601.336(80)
Tags
About the Artist
Jan Muller|Bartholomeus Spranger|Harmen Jansz. Muller · 1571–1628
**Jan Harmensz. Muller (1571–1628)** Born in Amsterdam in 1571, Jan Harmensz. Muller grew up immersed in the world of printmaking, as the son of the prominent engraver, publisher, and book printer Harmen Jansz. Muller. He studied under his father, mastering the engraving trade within the family business, The Gilded Compasses. Around 1589, Muller joined the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem...