The fate of an evil tongue; seven putti stand around an anvil on which they hammer a tongue, landscape and architecture behind
Nicoletto da Modena
ca. 1507
Medium
Engraving printed in gray-blue ink
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/16 x 8 1/8 in. (29.1 x 20.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
Accession Number
24.38.2
Tags
PuttiHammers
About the Artist
Nicoletto da Modena
Nicoletto da Modena was an Italian engraver active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, one of the most prolific and stylistically eclectic printmakers of the early Italian Renaissance. The details of his biography remain uncertain — his precise birth and death dates are unknown, and he is identified primarily through the body of prints that bear his name or monogram. He appears to...