Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 36r)
1598 (?)
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Overall: 6 1/8 x 7 7/8 in. (15.5 x 20 cm)
Classification
Books|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953
Accession Number
53.566.1(36r)
Tags
Art Historical Context
This woodcut page comes from *Neu künstlich Modelbuch*, a late-sixteenth-century pattern book published by Bernhard Jobin around 1598. Such model books served as practical guides for artisans and needleworkers, offering repeatable ornamental motifs for embroidery, lace, and textile decoration. Jobin, active in Strasbourg, played a key role in disseminating these designs across Europe through the newly efficient medium of print. The woodcut technique was especially well suited to this purpose, allowing intricate patterns to be carved into blocks and printed in multiple copies with clarity and ...
About the Artist
Bernhard Jobin · 1535–1597
Bernhard Jobin, born before 1545 in Porrentruy in the Swiss canton of Jura, emerged as a pivotal figure in the Strasbourg printing world. Trained as a Formschneider—a skilled woodblock cutter—he acquired Strasbourg citizenship in 1560 as a typesetter and joined the printers' guild, marking the start of his professional ascent. In 1567, he married Anna Fischart, sister of the renowned writer Johann...