The Resurrection of Lazarus
Jan Lievens
1620–74
Medium
Etching; laid down on canvas
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 9/16 × 11 15/16 in. (34.5 × 30.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harrison D. Horblit, 1986
Accession Number
1986.1227.2
Tags
MenWomenChrist
About the Artist
Jan Lievens · 1607–1674
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was born in Leiden and showed exceptional artistic promise from an early age, beginning his training with the local painter Joris van Schooten before traveling to Amsterdam around 1617 to study for two years under Pieter Lastman—the same teacher who would later instruct Rembrandt van Rijn. Lievens and Rembrandt, near-contemporaries born in the same city, subsequently shared...