Two Elegantly Dressed Men and a Woman in a Garden
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
6 9/16 x 9 15/16 in. (16.7 x 25.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2009
Accession Number
2009.485
Tags
Musical InstrumentsLutesMusiciansMenWomen
About the Artist
Jan van de Velde II|Esaias van de Velde · 1593–1641
Jan van de Velde II (1593–1641) was one of the most accomplished Dutch printmakers and draughtsmen of the early seventeenth century, born in Haarlem into a dynasty of celebrated calligraphers and artists. His father, Jan van de Velde I, was a renowned writing master, and his cousin Willem van de Velde the Elder would later become a distinguished marine painter. Jan II studied engraving under Jacob...