Woman with circular lace ruff — Wenceslaus Hollar

Wenceslaus Hollar

Woman with circular lace ruff

1644

Dating
Exact year
Held at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium
Etching; only state
Dimensions
Plate: 4 × 3 3/4 in. (10.2 × 9.6 cm) Sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 13/16 in. (10.8 x 9.7 cm)
Collection no.
17.34.7
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Wenceslaus Hollar. Woman with circular lace ruff. Wenceslaus Hollar; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. Van Horne Norrie, 1917. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Woman with circular lace ruff — Wenceslaus Hollar. 1644.

Medium: Etching; only state. Dimensions: Plate: 4 × 3 3/4 in. (10.2 × 9.6 cm) Sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 13/16 in. (10.8 x 9.7 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Dr. Van Horne Norrie, 1917.

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.

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