Kneeling Female Figure
Master MZ
late 15th–early 16th century
Medium
Pen and black ink
Dimensions
7 15/16 x 5 3/16 in. (20.2 x 13.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Fund and David Tunick Gift, 1995
Accession Number
1995.361
Tags
Women
About the Artist
Master MZ · 1477–1525
The artist known as Master MZ is one of the most accomplished and enigmatic printmakers of the German Renaissance, active around the turn of the sixteenth century. The designation derives from the monogram MZ with which the artist signed a small but technically extraordinary group of engravings, and despite sustained scholarly inquiry, the individual behind these initials has never been conclusive...