after Henrdrick Goltzius
Condition continued
Hinged at upper left and upper right corners. Thread margins.
Description | after Henrdrick Goltzius Condition continued Hinged at upper left and upper right corners. Thread margins.
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About the Artist | (Circa 1546-1624, Dutch) Most
likely van Sichem the Elder was born in Amsterdam circa 1546. An engraver and
draughtsman, he seems to have worked in Basel, Strasbourg and Augsburg. He was
the son of the bookseller Cornelis Karelsz.
Historical subjects and portraits are named as his known subjects in Benezit’s Dictionary of Artists. In the years between 1599 and 1608 Goltzius had drawn a group of fantasy portraits, which were treated in a quasi-archaic stylistic language inspired by Dürer and Lucas van Leyden. |
Medium | Woodcut on cream laid paper |
Catalogue raisonne | W. 19, Hollstein 399 (after Goltzius) |
Image size | 12 1/4" height X 8 1/4" width |
Paper size | 12 1/2" height X 8 1/3" width |
Signed | "CV Sichem, sculp" at viewer's lower right, "A: HG 1607" at viewer's lower left |
Date of creation | 1607 |
Condition | Excellent with horizontal fold at center visible from verso only. |
Provenance | AS Hu |