The Massacre of the Innocents with the Flight into Egypt, from "The Life of the Virgin"
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 11/16 × 7 1/4 in. (27.2 × 18.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of M. Feltenstein, 2021
Accession Number
2021.366
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Israhel van Meckenem|Hans Holbein the Elder · 1435–1503
Israhel van Meckenem (c. 1445–1503), also known as Israhel van Meckenem the Younger, was a pioneering German engraver and goldsmith based in Bocholt, near the Dutch border, renowned as the most prolific printmaker of the fifteenth century. Born into a family possibly of Dutch origin, he was the son of Israhel van Meckenem the Elder, a goldsmith who settled in Bocholt in 1457. He trained initially ...