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Virgin and Child
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Virgin and Child

Medium

Engraving (reverse copy)

Dimensions

sheet: 7 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. (19.7 x 13.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Claude Mellan

1598–1688France

Claude Mellan (1598–1688) was a French engraver, draughtsman, and painter who became one of the most innovative printmakers of the French Baroque period. Born in Abbeville to a customs official, he served as Peintre et Graveur Ordinaire du Roi (Painter and Engraver in Ordinary to the King) and revolutionized engraving technique through his mastery of the single-line method.