St. Stephanus Girandi
17th century
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 17 1/16 x 10 7/8 in. (43.3 x 27.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.270(9)
Tags
Art Historical Context
"St. Stephanus Gir" is a striking 17th-century engraving a collaborative effort attributed to Flemish engravers Conrad Lauwers and Herman Weyen, likely after a design by the French Baroque painter Laurent de La Hyre. Measuring 17 1/16 x 10 7/8 inches, this print captures the revered figure of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr amid tags evoking themes of male saints. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it entered the collection via the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund in 1953. Engravings like this one were pivotal in the Baroque era, a time when the Cathol...
About the Artist
Conrad Lauwers|Laurent de La Hyre|Herman Weyen (Flemish|French|Flemish) · 1632 |1606 |1600 –1685 |1656 |1672
Flemish, Antwerp, 1632–ca. 1685|French, Paris 1606–1656 Paris|Flemish, died Paris, 1672