Augustyn Bloemaert
Medium
engraving
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.8093
Art Historical Context
Behold the elegant portrait engraving *Augustyn Bloemaert*, by Dutch engraver Jonas Suyhoof after an original painting by the esteemed portraitist Johannes Cornelisz Versck. Dated between 1601 and 1650, this work captures the refined likeness of its sitter during the Dutch Golden Age, a flourishing era of portraiture in the Netherlands when artists like Verspronck excelled in rendering lifelike faces with psychological depth and meticulous detail. As a print medium, engraving allowed masterpieces like Verspronck's oil paintings to reach a broader audience through reproducible precision. Suyde...