The Madonna nursing the Christ Child at the foot of a tree
ca. 1501–3
Medium
Engraving, upper and lower right corners are restored
Dimensions
plate: 6 5/16 x 8 5/8 in. (16 x 21.9 cm) trimmed; slightly irregular
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.97
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About the Artist
Jacopo de' Barbari · 1497–1516
Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1460/70–before 1516) was an Italian painter, printmaker, and miniaturist of Venetian background whose career unfolded across the courts and workshops of northern Europe, making him one of the most important conduits between Italian Renaissance art and the northern artistic tradition in the years around 1500. Little is known of his training or his early decades; Alvise Vivari...