1597
Hendrick Goltzius Dutch, 1558-1617
Netherlands
Goltzius was the foremost draughtsman, printmaker, print publisher and painter working in Holland at the turn of the seventeenth century. Initially a Mannerist artist, by 1600 he revealed an interest in naturalism, and more or less gave up engraving. Nonetheless, he made 361 prints, 291 of his own design, This depicts the son of the still-life painter Dirck de Vries.
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper