Visitation; Saint Elizabeth embracing the Virgin at center as Saint Joseph walks toward them on the right and Zacharias greets them on the left; from 'Theatrum Pictorium', after Palma Il Vecchio
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 11 15/16 in. × 20 in. (30.3 × 50.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.600.563
About the Artist
David Teniers the Younger|Peeter van Lisebetten|Palma Il Vecchio · 1610–1690
David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690) was a Flemish painter who became one of the most versatile and prolific artists of the seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands, renowned for his peasant genre scenes, elegant gallery paintings, and his role as court painter and curator. Born in Antwerp, he trained under his father, David Teniers the Elder, and was influenced by Adriaen Brouwer's peasant subje...