Design for a Knife Handle with Well-Dressed Couples — Johann Theodor de Bry | DiscoverArt

Johann Theodor de Bry

Design for a Knife Handle with Well-Dressed Couples

1580–1600

Engraving and blackwork

8.3 × 2.5 cm (3.3 × 1 in)

SEE IT IN PERSON

In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — check current display status with the museum.

View at metmuseum.org ↗︎Plan a visit ↗︎

Discover

Your feed Blog Museums & galleries Saved works

You

Account Community guidelines

DiscoverArt

A taste-graph discovery engine for art. Every work shown is a real object in a real museum — artwork images courtesy of their institutions’ open-access programs.

© Discover Art 2026Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Policy

Discussion

Be the first to share your thoughts.

Sign in to join the discussion.

More by Johann Theodor de Bry

Prayer

Triumph of Bacchus

Triumph of Bacchus

The Golden Age

Design for Knife Handles with 'Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus' and a Couple Shaking Hands

Design for Knife Handles with 'Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget

Horizontal Panel with a Thimble Design Below a Frieze with Three Scenes in Arches

Horizontal Panel with a Thimble Design Below a Frieze with T

The Venetian Ball

The Venetian Ball

The Fountain of Youth

The Fountain of Youth

Design for a Brooch with Judith Holding the Head of Holofernes

Design for a Brooch with Judith Holding the Head of Holofern

More like this

Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with the Death of Lucretia

Theodor de Bry — Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with th

Dagger Sheath with a Nude Woman Above

Heinrich Aldegrever — Dagger Sheath with a Nude Woman Above

Design for a Dagger Sheath, with Executioner and Head of John the Baptist

Heinrich Aldegrever — Design for a Dagger Sheath, with Execu

Dagger Sheath Decorated with Tendrils and Two Profiles

Heinrich Aldegrever — Dagger Sheath Decorated with Tendrils

Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle

Theodor de Bry — Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle

Design for a Dagger Sheath, with Cain and Abel

Heinrich Aldegrever — Design for a Dagger Sheath, with Cain

Candelabra Grotesque with a Female Figure in a Niche and Two Sphinxes

Cornelis Massys|Anonymous, Italian, 16th century — Candelabr

Kiosk Chinois, from Premier cayer de panneaux, frises et sujets arabesques

François Marie Isidore Queverdo — Kiosk Chinois, from Premie

Ornament Panel

Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) — Ornament Panel

Vertical Panel with a Candelabrum Containing a Child's Head and a Woman with Two Fish Tails

Heinrich Aldegrever — Vertical Panel with a Candelabrum Cont

Design for a Brooch with Two Heart-Shaped Pieces

Theodor de Bry — Design for a Brooch with Two Heart-Shaped P

Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle with the Suicide of Cleopatra

Theodor de Bry — Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle with th