Mercury Abducting Psyche
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 50 × 26 cm (19 11/16 × 10 1/4 in.) sheet: 51.4 × 27 cm (20 1/4 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
2022.24.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jan Muller, after Adriaen de Vries
**Jan Harmensz. Muller (1571–1628)** was a Dutch engraver, draughtsman, and painter renowned for his masterful reproductive prints after leading Northern Mannerist sculptors and painters, particularly Adriaen de Vries. Born in Amsterdam and baptized on 1 July 1571, Muller came from a family deeply involved in the print trade; his father, Harmen Jansz. Muller, was a book printer, engraver, and publ...