Malle Babbe, after Frans Hals
Medium
Etching on chine collé
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 13 3/4 in. (48 × 35 cm) Plate: 7 11/16 × 5 5/8 in. (19.5 × 14.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1912
Accession Number
12.191.26
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About this artwork
[Research in progress for Malle Babbe, after Frans Hals by François Liénard|P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.|Frans Hals|Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart, 1871]
Art Historical Context
This 1871 etching, created after Frans Hals’s celebrated seventeenth-century portrait, captures the presence of Malle Bab, a striking woman shown an owl perched beside. Produced by etcher Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart in collaboration with François Liénard and the firm P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., the print belongs to the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of works on paper. It exemplifies the nineteenth-century practice of reproductive prints, which brought celebrated Old Master paintings to new audiences through accessible yet refined editions. Executed in etching on chine collé, the medium allows fi...
About the Artist
François Liénard|P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.|Frans Hals|Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (French|French) · 1813 |1860 –1894 |1890
French, Paris 1813–1894 Paris|