The Massacre of the Innocents with the Flight into Egypt, from "The Life of the Virgin"
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 1/4 in. (27.2 × 18.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of M. Feltenstein, 2021
Accession Number
2021.366
About the Artist
Israhel van Meckenem|Hans Holbein the Elder · 1435–1503
Israhel van Meckenem (c. 1445–1503), also known as Israhel van Meckenem the Younger, was a pioneering German engraver and goldsmith based in Bocholt, near the Dutch border, renowned as the most prolific printmaker of the fifteenth century. Born into a family possibly of Dutch origin, he was the son of Israhel van Meckenem the Elder, a goldsmith who settled in Bocholt in 1457. He trained initially ...