Art, literature & history
The Illmatched Couple
1602
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Black and red chalk, brush and green wash. Laid down on blue cardboard mount with framing lines in gold, brown and red
- Dimensions
- Circular drawing. Diameter: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Mount: 13 9/16 x 13 in. (34.5 x 33 cm)
- Collection no.
- 59.642.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0License details
Jacob Matham. The Illmatched Couple. Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access, CC0. Full-frame resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Illmatched Couple — Jacob Matham. 1602.
Medium: Black and red chalk, brush and green wash. Laid down on blue cardboard mount with framing lines in gold, brown and red. Dimensions: Circular drawing. Diameter: 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm). Mount: 13 9/16 x 13 in. (34.5 x 33 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.