December: And Old Man Seated by a Hearth with a Young Man Blowing on the Fire
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001
Catalogue
- Year
- 1580
- Dimensions
- Diameter 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist
Mixed Media
Crispijn van de Passe the Elder was a Dutch draughtsman and printmaker active in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Working primarily in pen and ink, he produced detailed studies of ornament, natural forms, and allegorical subjects that circulated widely across Northern Europe as models for artisans and designers. His drawings were foundational to the dissemination of Renaissance and early Baroque decorative vocabularies in the Dutch Republic and beyond.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1580
- Dimensions
- Diameter 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1580-002370
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified