Youth with two Old Men
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (12 x 9.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.78.2(25)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Youth with Two Old Men*, a delicate 17th-century etching attributed to an anonymous Italian artist possibly inspired by the Mannerist master ParmigianinoGirolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola). intimate print, measuring just 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches, captures poignant encounter between a youthful figure and elderly men, evoking themes of generational contrast through its simple yet evocative composition. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department—acquired via the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund in 1927—it exemplifies the era's fascination with reproductive prints that di...