Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

After Maarten van Heemskerck Netherlandish
1871
Not on view
Among the ten works included in Jacquemart’s portfolio of etchings celebrating the founding collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this print after Heemskerck’s portrait of his father (71.36) was deemed especially successful by numerous critics. The publishers selected it as a sample to send to the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts," while the British critic Philip Gilbert Hamerton admired in particular the modeling of the facial musculature and the gradation in dark tones achieved in the fur cap.

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  • Title: Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
  • Series/Portfolio: Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York
  • Artist: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (French, Paris 1837–1880 Paris)
  • Artist: After Maarten van Heemskerck (Netherlandish, Heemskerck 1498–1574 Haarlem)
  • Publisher: P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.
  • Date: 1871
  • Medium: Etching; third state of three (Gonse)
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 18 3/16 × 13 3/8 in. (46.3 × 34 cm)
    Plate: 7 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (20 × 15 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, 1871, transferred from the Department of Paintings
  • Object Number: 19.59.7
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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