Woman with broad brimmed hat

Woman with broad brimmed hat

Wenceslaus Hollar

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders slightly turned to left, her hair in two plaits covering her ears, wearing dark tall wide-brimmed hat and white shoulder wrap with double lace flounces.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Woman with broad brimmed hat presented at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Unlocked Museums