The Lions (one of eight plates)
Medium
Etching; stating unknown
Dimensions
sheet: 7 1/8 x 8 15/16 in. (18.1 x 22.7 cm) plate: 6 7/8 x 8 13/16 in. (17.5 x 22.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.616
Tags
About the Artist
Paulus Potter|Marcus de Bye|Nicolas Visscher I · 1625–1654
Paulus Potter (1625–1654) was a Dutch Golden Age painter whose short life — he died at just twenty-eight years of age — belied an artistic achievement of remarkable originality and influence. Born in Enkhuizen in 1625, Potter trained under his father, the painter Pieter Potter, and later in Amsterdam and Delft, where he absorbed the technical standards of the flourishing Dutch painting tradition. ...