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Market Scene in City with the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard in the Background

Jacob Matham|Pieter Aertsen

1603

Market Scene in City with the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard in the Background by Jacob Matham|Pieter Aertsen

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

49.95.801

About the Artist

Jacob Matham|Pieter Aertsen · 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 ...

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