The Submersion of Pharoah's Army in the Red Sea, from twelve blocks: 'Block I, below Block H', showing the sea and a dog defecating
ca. 1514–1515 (published 1549)
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 5/16 × 21 1/2 in. (41.5 × 54.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.54.95(9)
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Domenico dalle Greche|Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)|Bernardino Benalio · 1543–1543
**Domenico Dalle Greche** (also spelled Delle Greche) was an Italian painter, wood-engraver, and print publisher of Greek origin active in Venice during the mid-16th century. Born in Modone (modern Methoni) in the Peloponnese as the son of the Venetian Antonio, he worked primarily between 1543 and 1558. No paintings by him survive, and his reputation rests on his skill as a reproductive printmaker...