Men with seive
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 5 7/16 x 20 1/4 in. (13.8 x 51.5 cm) plate: 8 3/8 x 15 9/16 in. (21.2 x 39.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.2638
Tags
Art Historical Context
This engraving, titled *Men with Sieve*, was produced by Giovanni Girolamo Frezza after a design by Carlo Maratti between 1675 and 1741. Maratti, a leading Roman painter of the late Baroque period, often created compositions that blended classical ideals with everyday subjects, while Frezza specialized in translating paintings into prints. The medium of engraving allowed such images to reach a broader audience, preserving and circulating artistic ideas across Europe during a time when original paintings remained largely in private collections. The scene shows men at work alongside donkeys, ev...