Kitchen Scene with a Maid Drawing Poultry, the Parable of the Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus, from Kitchen and Market Scenes with Biblical Scenes in the Background

Jacob Matham

ca. 1603

Kitchen Scene with a Maid Drawing Poultry, the Parable of the Rich Man and the Poor Lazarus, from Kitchen and Market Scenes with Biblical Scenes in the Background by Jacob Matham

Medium

Engraving; first state of two

Dimensions

sheet: 9 7/16 × 13 1/16 in. (23.9 × 33.1 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

Accession Number

49.95.804

Tags

FoodBirdsKitchensMenWomenServants

About the Artist

Jacob Matham · 15711631

**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 ...

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