The Joy of the Cellar: kneeling farmer boy holding a jug next to wine barrel
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 12 5/8 × 8 3/8 in. (31.8 × 21.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.6649
Tags
About the Artist
Cornelis Visscher|Adam von Bartsch · 1629–1658
Cornelis Visscher (1629–1658) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver, draughtsman, and printmaker born in Haarlem, the brother of fellow artists Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher. Little is known of his early life, but he studied under the Haarlem painter and engraver Pieter Claesz Soutman, with whom he closely collaborated from 1649 to 1650, producing numerous portrait engravings for Soutman's print ...