Le Bouvier Assis
Medium
Etching, third state
Dimensions
image: 5 11/16 x 8 1/4 in. (14.4 x 21 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.6743
Tags
About this artwork
This pastoral etching by Jean Morin after a design by Cornelis van Poelenburch exemplifies the sophisticated print production that characterized mid-seventeenth-century French printmaking. Created between 1620 and 1650, the print reproduces one of Van Poelenburch's Italianate landscape compositions featuring a seated herdsman in an idealized countryside. Van Poelenburch, a Utrecht painter who spent years in Italy, specialized in small-scale landscapes populated with shepherds, ruins, and mytholo...
About the Artist
Jean Morin|Cornelis van Poelenburch · 1605–1650
Jean Morin (c. 1605–1650) was one of the most accomplished French engravers of the seventeenth century, a master of the portrait print whose work stands among the finest examples of French graphic art in its era. Little is known about his early life or training, though his technique suggests exposure to both French and Flemish engraving traditions, the latter being the dominant force in European p...