The Eleven Ages of Women
1609–72
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 11/16 × 17 3/16 in. (32.2 × 43.7 cm) Plate: 9 15/16 × 14 3/8 in. (25.3 × 36.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, TheElisha Whittelsey fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.601.22
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Gerhard Altzenbach · 1609–1672
**Gerhard Altzenbach (1609–1672)** was a prominent German engraver, print publisher, and bookseller based in Cologne, where he operated a significant copper-engraving workshop. Active from the early seventeenth century through the 1670s, he specialized in producing and distributing popular devotional prints, city views, calendars, and topical broadsheets that reflected the religious and civic life...