Hortulana, from Hortulanae series
Medium
Etching and engraving with drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 12 1/2 × 6 15/16 in. (31.7 × 17.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, by exchange, 1994
Accession Number
1994.177
Tags
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...