Hendrick Goltzius
Dutch, 1558-1617
Gillis van Breen
INV-7481
Hendrick Goltzius
Dutch, 1558-16171588/92
Gillis van Breen
Hendrick Goltzius Dutch, 1558-1617 →woodcutprint
Date
1588/92
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut in black, ochre, and brown, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.8 × 14.4 cm (8 1/4 × 5 11/16 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 21.1 × 14.5 cm (8 5/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Alfred E. Hamill
Gillis van Breen (c. 1560-after 1602) seems to have been a member of Hendrik Goltzius's workshop for at least the years 1588-92, when Goltzius made three portrait drawings of him. Van Breen is described in an inscription on an impression of this print at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, as Goltzius's "art printer," and some scholars speculate that he may have made this print himself after one of Goltzius's drawings of him.
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