The Falconer and the Lady, from the series Scenes of Daily Life
ca. 1495
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (16.5 x 10.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Barbara and Howard Fox and Martha Feltenstein Gifts, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2003
Accession Number
2003.137
Tags
About the Artist
Israhel van Meckenem · 1435–1503
Israhel van Meckenem (c. 1445–1503), also known as Israhel van Meckenem the Younger, was a pioneering German engraver and goldsmith based in Bocholt, near the Dutch border, renowned as the most prolific printmaker of the fifteenth century. Born into a family possibly of Dutch origin, he was the son of Israhel van Meckenem the Elder, a goldsmith who settled in Bocholt in 1457. He trained initially ...