Ignis
c. 1586
Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

Artwork overview
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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
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 21.6 x 16.4 cm (8 1/2 x 6 7/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.92.8
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Catalogue Raisonné
Reznicek 1993, no. K153a
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
by the artist at bottom center: HG
Watermarks
Thin laid paper with watermark: Bishop's Crozier in a Crowned Shield (Briquet 1344)
Wikidata ID
Q64573647