Triton en Nereïde in omhelzing
Jacopo de'Barbari
1501 - 1506
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
188; 134
About this artwork
collector's mark: Lugt 240
About the Artist
Jacopo de'Barbari · 1450–1516
Possibly born in Venice; died in Mechelen or Brussels before July 17, 1516. Barbari was the first Italian Renaissance artist of note to travel to the German and Netherlandish courts. He probably received training with Alvise Vivarini in Venice in the 1490s. His best-known painting is "Still Life with a Dead Partridge" of 1504, a a trompe l'oeil probably made for one of the palaces of the Saxon duk...