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Hendrik Goltzius

Associated Names
Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

This is a drawing of a figure holding a lifeless body on a fabric-covered surface. The drawing features intricate details, including flowing garments and facial expressions. In the background, light rays add drama, with figures near a structure resembling a cross. A crown of thorns lies on the ground in the foreground, and shading is used to create depth and emotion in the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.7 x 12.7 cm (7 3/8 x 5 in.)
    sheet: 18.8 x 12.8 cm (7 3/8 x 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.92.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 31, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

R. Esmerian (not in Lugt). (David Tunick, Inc., New York); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased June 7, 1979; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • NGA Anniversary 1991, p. 40.

1998

  • Becoming Käthe Kollwitz: An Artist and Her Influences, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1998, no. 9.

2013

  • Northern Mannerist Prints from the Kainen Collection, NGA, 2013 - 2014.

Bibliography

1921

  • Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie; no. 50, ii/ii

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, no. 50, ii/ii

1991

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p. 40

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Hendrick Goltzius, Marjolein Leesburg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 31, ii/ii

Inscriptions

in image, at center right: Ao. 96; in image at bottom center: HG

Wikidata ID

Q75421431

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