Horizontal Panel with a Half-Length Man and Woman Facing a Vase at Center
1520–61
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 15/16 × 3 5/16 in. (2.4 × 8.4 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956
Accession Number
56.500.76
Tags
Art Historical Context
Jacob Binck’s *Horizontal Panel with a Half-Length Man and Woman Facing a Vase at Center* is a delicate engraving created between 1520 and 1561. Measuring just under an inch high, the tiny print depicts a male and female nude confronting a central vase in a symmetrical arrangement. As a work classified under Ornament and Architecture, it likely served as a design model for craftsmen, goldsmiths, or architects seeking elegant motifs drawn from classical sources. Binck, a German printmaker active during the Northern Renaissance, specialized in small-scale engravings that blended Italianate figu...