Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck

Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck

Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van HeemskerckPortrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van HeemskerckPortrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van HeemskerckPortrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van HeemskerckPortrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck

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.