An etching and engraving titled "Balaam and the Angel," made by Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert after a composition by Maarten van Heemskerck and published by Hieronymus Cock in 1554. It illustrates Numbers 22, the episode of the diviner Balaam whose donkey saw the angel of the Lord blocking the road before Balaam himself did. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints department, under accession 2023.382, Purchase, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2023.
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MediumEtching and engraving, Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1554, Metropolitan Museum of Art 2023.382 1 Classification
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Source Balaam and the Angel, accession 2023.382 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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The Met's own title for this print names the subject outright, "Balaam," a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.
Source Balaam and the Angel, accession 2023.382 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art- accession 2023.382
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An etching and engraving titled "Balaam and the Angel," made by Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert after a composition by Maarten van Heemskerck and published by Hieronymus Cock in 1554.
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