Ignis, c. 1586

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink over red chalk with gray and brown wash and white heightening on pink tinted paper, with pin pricks throughout the figure

Dimensions

sheet: 21.6 x 16.4 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Reznicek 1993, no. K153a

Accession Number

2012.92.8

Artists / Makers

Hendrick Goltzius (artist) Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist at bottom center: HG

Provenance

Dr. Gustave Verriest, Louvain, Belgium; his son, Leon Verriest, Hanover, NH; his daughter, Anne Verriest Badgley, Great Falls, VA; Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., 1979; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Badgley, Anne Verriest
Kainen, Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.
Verriest, Gustave
Verriest, Leon

Exhibition History

1981: Dutch Figure Drawings from the Seventeenth Century. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1981 (not in cat.).

1991: Art for the Nation : Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington 1991, pp. 34-35 (color)(entry by John Hand).

2013: Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014 (no cat.).

2016: Recent Acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Drawings, NGA, 2016 (no cat.).

Bibliography

1993: Reznicek, E.K.J. "Drawings by Hendrick Goltzius, Thirty Years Later: Supplement to the 1961 catalogue raisonné." Master Drawings 31, no. 3 (Autumn 1993): 246, K 153a, fig. 43.