Young woman with a scarf on her head
Medium
Etching; only state
Dimensions
Plate: 3 3/4 × 2 13/16 in. (9.6 × 7.1 cm) Sheet: 3 7/8 × 2 7/8 in. (9.8 × 7.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number
20.81.2.182
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Wenceslaus Hollar|Francesco Bonsignori · 1607–1677
Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) was a prolific Bohemian etcher who became one of the most accomplished printmakers of the seventeenth century. Born in Prague, he trained under Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt before entering the service of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1636. Hollar spent most of his career in England, where he produced approximately 2,740 etchings documenting an extraordinary range...