Opera cape
Beer|Gustave Beer
ca. 1896
Medium
silk, wool
Classification
Opera cape
Culture
French
Department
Costume Institute
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Everett S. Lee, 1980
Accession Number
1980.588.1
About the Artist
Beer|Gustave Beer · 1465–1528
Jan de Beer is regarded as one of the central figures in Antwerp Mannerism. He was possibly born in Antwerp where was an apprentice to to the painter Gillis van Everen. Although a drawing in the British Museum is the only fully signed work by de Beer, it is possible to extrapolate from it and attribute other works to him with considerable confidence; the resulting oeuvre includes about two dozen w...