The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own open-access collection API record for "Balaam and the Angel," an etching and engraving by Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert after Maarten van Heemskerck, published by Hieronymus Cock, dated 1554. Purchase, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2023. Accession number 2023.382.
Facts
Citation
PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
URLhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/898840
Source TypeMuseum
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
The holding museum's own open-access collection API record for the accessioned print, the strongest available record for its attribution, date and accession number, whose own title names the subject outright. Connections
Associated With
This source names Balaam directly: "open-access collection API record for "Balaam and the Angel," an etching and engraving by Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert after Maarten van Heemskerck, published by Hieronymus Cock, dated 1554."
Source Balaam and the Angel, accession 2023.382 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Claims Backed By This Source (14 claims)
This source backs 14 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected, 2 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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