The Sleeping Herdsman
ca. 1644
Medium
Etching and drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 3 1/16 × 2 5/16 in. (7.8 × 5.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund and Bequest of Ida Kammerer, in memory of Frederick Kammerer, M.D., by exchange
Accession Number
1972.628
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About the Artist
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1606–1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) stands as one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art and the most important Dutch painter of the 17th century. Born in Leiden to a prosperous miller's family, Rembrandt transformed painting through his revolutionary use of light and shadow, his psychological depth in portraiture, and his elevation of etching to a fine art. His approx...