The Golden Age
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 12 3/16 x 16 3/4 in. (30.9 x 42.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.900
Tags
Art Historical Context
**The Golden Age** (1620) is a captivating engraving produced through a remarkable collaboration among Dutch masters Hendrick Goltzius, Adriaen Matham, Matham, and poet Theodorus Schrevelius Measuring 12 3/16 x 16 3/4 inches, this print from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and department vividly depicts an idyllic pastoral paradise. Graceful male and female nudes frolic amid cows, goats, dogs, and playful infants in a lush landscape, evoking the classical myth of the Golden Age—a utopian era of harmony abundance, and innocence drawn from Ovid's *Metoses*. Goltzius, a leading figure ...