Self-Portrait (from "Image de divers hommes: The true effigies of the most eminent Painters," 1649)
Medium
Etching; third state of five
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 1/4 × 4 5/16 in. (15.8 × 11 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.624
Tags
MenSelf-portraitsWomen
About the Artist
Johannes Meyssens|Wenceslaus Hollar|Wenceslaus Hollar · 1612–1670
Joannes Meyssens (1612–1670), also known as Johannes, Jan, or Jean Meyssens, was a Flemish Baroque painter, engraver, and print publisher whose career exemplifies the multifaceted nature of seventeenth-century artistic enterprise. Born in Brussels on May 17, 1612, and active primarily in Antwerp where he died on September 18, 1670, Meyssens made his most significant contribution not through his pa...