The Vision of Saint Francis, kneeling at right, receiving the Christ child from the Virgin Mary
Medium
Etching and engraving; second state of four (Hollstein)
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 17 1/8 × 13 13/16 in. (43.5 × 35.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.7139
Tags
About the Artist
Cornelis Visscher|Peter Paul Rubens|Pieter Soutman · 1629–1658
Cornelis Visscher (1629–1658) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver, draughtsman, and printmaker born in Haarlem, the brother of fellow artists Jan de Visscher and Lambert Visscher. Little is known of his early life, but he studied under the Haarlem painter and engraver Pieter Claesz Soutman, with whom he closely collaborated from 1649 to 1650, producing numerous portrait engravings for Soutman's print ...