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
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 · 1571–1631
**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 ...