Vries, Frederik de (died 1613) son of the painter Dirck de Vries, pupil of Goltzius, with Goltzius's dog
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 33.9 × 26 cm (13 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Plate: 35.8 × 26.4 cm (14 1/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 38.4 × 28.6 cm (15 1/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
10178
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.
About the Artist
Hendrick Goltzius · 1558–1617
Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) was the most celebrated engraver of the Northern Renaissance and a pivotal figure in Dutch Mannerism. Born near the German-Dutch border, Goltzius transformed printmaking into a virtuoso art form through his revolutionary 'swelling line' technique, where the burin was manipulated to create lines of varying thickness that produced unprecedented tonal effects and three-d...