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Hendrik Goltzius

Associated Names
Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

The image depicts a woman seated in a turned position, with an updo and a headscarf. She wears a robe and drop earrings, with her hands resting in her lap. In the background, there are swirling patterns.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gray and brown chalk with pen and brown ink (the head, the undergarment, and the right hand are traced with pen and black ink)

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24.1 x 16.4 cm (9 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1984.76.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reznicek 1993, no. 119

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kurt Meissner, Zurich

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1969

  • Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner, Zurich. Exh. cat., Detroit and New York, 1969, no. 50.

1984

  • Galerie Meissner, Handzeichnungen aus fünf Jahrhunderten. Exh. cat., Zurich, 1984, no. 63.

1986

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., April 1986.

1993

  • Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540-1640. Exh. cat. by Timothy Riggs and Larry Silver, Northwestern University, Evanstown, IL, 1993, no. 63.

Bibliography

1972

  • Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert. Review of Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner, Zurich. In Master Drawings 10, no. 2 (1972): 165.

1993

  • Reznicek, E.K.J. "Drawings by Hendrick Goltzius, Thirty Years Later: Supplement to the 1961 catalogue raisonné." Master Drawings XXXI (Autumn 1993): K 119a, fig. 32, p. 240.

Inscriptions

lower center in brown ink: HG fecit.; by later hand, lower right in black chalk: 1592

Wikidata ID

Q64573643

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