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Robed woman standing next to a plinth, her right hand bears a palm branch, a harp rests against the plinth
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Robed woman standing next to a plinth, her right hand bears a palm branch, a harp rests against the plinth

ca. 1620–88

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 4 13/16 x 2 3/4 in. (12.2 x 7 cm) plate: 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (11.4 x 6.4 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Mellan

1598–1688France

Claude Mellan (1598–1688) was a French engraver, draughtsman, and painter who became one of the most innovative printmakers of the French Baroque period. Born in Abbeville to a customs official, he served as Peintre et Graveur Ordinaire du Roi (Painter and Engraver in Ordinary to the King) and revolutionized engraving technique through his mastery of the single-line method.