Le Massacre des Innocents 1re Plance (The Massacre of the Innocents, 1st Plate)
Medium
Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure)
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/8 x 5 1/4 in. (10.5 x 13.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957
Accession Number
57.650.376
About the Artist
Israël Henriet|Jacques Callot|Don Giovanni de' Medici · 1585–1661
Israël Henriet (c. 1590–1661) stands as one of the most important figures in 17th-century French printmaking, not only as an accomplished engraver in his own right but as the principal publisher and preserver of Jacques Callot's extraordinary legacy. Born in Nancy, Lorraine, around 1590, Henriet belonged to an artistic family and grew up as a childhood friend of Callot, the preeminent printmaker o...