The Illmatched Couple
1602
Medium
Black and red chalk, brush and green wash. Laid down on blue cardboard mount with framing lines in gold, brown and red
Dimensions
Circular drawing. Diameter: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Mount: 13 9/16 x 13 in. (34.5 x 33 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959
Accession Number
59.642.1
Tags
About the Artist
Jacob Matham · 1571–1631
**Jacob Matham: Master Engraver of Haarlem** Jacob Matham was born on October 15, 1571, in Haarlem, in the Northern Netherlands, into a burgeoning artistic milieu. Following his father's early death, his mother married the renowned painter and engraver Hendrick Goltzius in 1579, who adopted the young Jacob and trained him rigorously in the workshop as his stepson and pupil. Matham's first signed ...