Saint Christopher with the Christ Child on his shoulder
Nicoletto da Modena
ca. 1500–1510
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 5 7/8 x 4 1/8 in. (15 x 10.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.576
Tags
Saint ChristopherChrist
About the Artist
Nicoletto da Modena
Nicoletto da Modena was an Italian engraver active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one of the most prolific and stylistically eclectic printmakers of the early Italian Renaissance. The details of his biography remain uncertain — his precise birth and death dates are unknown, and he is identified primarily through the body of prints that bear his name or monogram. He appears to...