Holy Family with Saint Anne
Medium
Engraving; second state of two (Hollstein)
Dimensions
Plate: 10 3/16 × 7 5/16 in. (25.9 × 18.5 cm) Sheet: 13 3/8 × 8 9/16 in. (33.9 × 21.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Michel N. Benisovitch, 1950
Accession Number
50.548.2
Tags
About the Artist
Johannes Meyssens|Paulus Pontius|Peter Paul Rubens · 1612–1670
Joannes Meyssens (1612–1670), also known as Johannes, Jan, or Jean Meyssens, was a Flemish Baroque painter, engraver, and print publisher whose career exemplifies the multifaceted nature of seventeenth-century artistic enterprise. Born in Brussels on May 17, 1612, and active primarily in Antwerp where he died on September 18, 1670, Meyssens made his most significant contribution not through his pa...