Saint Catherine
ca. 1501–3
Medium
Engraving, silhouetted with background from additional piece of paper later added
Dimensions
plate: 7 11/16 x 4 13/16 in. (19.6 x 12.3 cm) sheet: 8 3/8 x 5 9/16 in. (21.3 x 14.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960
Accession Number
60.576.1
Tags
About the Artist
Jacopo de' Barbari · 1497–1516
Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1460/70–before 1516) was an Italian painter, printmaker, and miniaturist of Venetian background whose career unfolded across the courts and workshops of northern Europe, making him one of the most important conduits between Italian Renaissance art and the northern artistic tradition in the years around 1500. Little is known of his training or his early decades; Alvise Vivari...