Portrait of Don Antonio Emanuel Marchio de Wnth, Ambassador to the King of the Congo
Lucas Kilian|Friedrich Sustris
ca. 1608
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 10 x 7 3/4in. (25.4 x 19.7cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Monroe Warshaw, 2001
Accession Number
2001.650
Tags
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About the Artist
Lucas Kilian|Friedrich Sustris
Lucas Kilian (1579–1637) was one of the most celebrated engravers of early 17th-century Germany and the most prominent member of the Kilian dynasty of printmakers in Augsburg. Born in Augsburg in 1579, Lucas Kilian achieved international recognition for his technically virtuosic engravings and became a leading figure in the transition from late Renaissance to early Baroque printmaking styles. His ...