Roma Mother with Children

Cornelis Visscher

ca. 1656–57

Roma Mother with Children by Cornelis Visscher

Medium

Black chalk with brush and dark gray wash

Dimensions

Sheet: 11 in. × 8 7/8 in. (28 × 22.5 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Clement C. Moore Gifts, 2016

Accession Number

2016.528

Tags

NursingChildrenInfantsMothersWomen

About the Artist

Cornelis Visscher · 16291658

Cornelis Visscher (1629–1658) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver, draughtsman, and printmaker born in Haarlem, the brother of fellow artists Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher. Little is known of his early life, but he studied under the Haarlem painter and engraver Pieter Claesz Soutman, with whom he closely collaborated from 1649 to 1650, producing numerous portrait engravings for Soutman's print ...

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