Mars and Venus
Medium
Black chalk with pen and gray ink and brush and gray wash, with touches of graphite, on buff laid paper, tipped onto cream laid paper
Dimensions
28.6 × 24 cm (11 5/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
83965
About the Artist
Jacob Toorenvliet
**Jacob Toorenvliet (1640–1719)** Jacob Toorenvliet was baptized on 1 July 1640 in Leiden, in the Dutch Republic, the son of Abraham Toorenvliet, a prominent glass painter, drawing master, and member of both the Glassmakers’ Guild and the Guild of Saint Luke. He learned the rudiments of painting from his father, who also instructed artists like Frans van Mieris the Elder and Matthijs Naiveu, befo...