Mary Magdalen
Master i.e.
ca. 1490
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 5 11/16 in. (21.6 x 14.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Goodwin M. and Rose-Helen Breinin, 2000
Accession Number
2000.634
Tags
Mary Magdalene
About the Artist
Master i.e.
**Master i.e.**, a pseudonym derived from the Gothic initials "i.e."—possibly his monogram—appearing in reverse on a rare engraving of a peasant holding a sausage, was a prolific German engraver active between approximately 1480 and 1500. Little is documented about his personal life, which remains shrouded in the anonymity typical of many late medieval printmakers, but his oeuvre reveals a masterf...