Sleeping Girl with Needlework in her Lap
Medium
Mezzotint
Dimensions
14 3/16 x 10 5/16 in. (36 x 26.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1988
Accession Number
1988.1089
Tags
SleepingGirlsNeedlework
About the Artist
Gerard Valck|Michiel van Musscher · 1652–1726
Gerard Valck (1652–1726) was a Dutch engraver, publisher, and cartographer whose career bridged the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age and the 18th-century Enlightenment. Born on September 30, 1652, in Amsterdam to a silversmith father, and dying on October 21, 1726, Valck played a crucial role in introducing and developing mezzotint printmaking in England while also establishing a significant publishi...