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Balaam and the Angel, accession 2023.382 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access collection API record, read 2026-08-18

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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.

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Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
URL
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/898840
Source Type
Museum
Assessment
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1
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.
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Balaam, Figures

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."

Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)

This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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