Three Half-Length Figures
Pieter Jansz.
1622/72
Medium
Pen and black iron gall ink on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
10.3 × 12.1 cm (4 1/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
105806
About the Artist
Pieter Jansz. · 1602–1672
Pieter Jansz (1602–1672) was a Dutch glass painter and draughtsman working in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age, a period when the art of painted glass windows experienced a distinctive flowering in the Protestant Netherlands. While the Reformation had largely ended the tradition of elaborate stained glass religious imagery in Dutch churches, secular painted glass continued to thrive, particul...