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Michiel Coxie I
The Brazen Serpent

Not on view
Engraving with dense crosshatching depicting a crowd of muscular nude figures writhing and collapsing as serpents coil around their bodies, with a robed figure raising a staff toward a snake on a pole in the distance

Michiel Coxie I, The Brazen Serpent, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Michiel Coxie I
Flanders, Mechelen, 1499-1592
Title
The Brazen Serpent
Place Made
Holland
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 16 7/8 in. (29.53 × 42.86 cm) Image: 11 3/4 × 16 5/8 in. (29.85 × 42.23 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Stansbury Ruiz Bequest
Accession Number
M.88.91.98
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. Mannerist Prints: International Style in the Sixteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1988.