Joost van den Vondel
Jan Lievens|Joost van den Vondel
17th century
Medium
Etching; fifth state
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 7/8 × 9 13/16 in. (32.7 × 24.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of John J. Glessner III, 1947
Accession Number
47.142.5
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Jan Lievens|Joost van den Vondel · 1607–1674
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was born in Leiden and showed exceptional artistic promise from an early age, beginning his training with the local painter Joris van Schooten before traveling to Amsterdam around 1617 to study for two years under Pieter Lastman—the same teacher who would later instruct Rembrandt van Rijn. Lievens and Rembrandt, near-contemporaries born in the same city, subsequently shared...